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It makes a white lime of great quickness and strength. The Niagara is 

 again seen in the Wabash, N. W. £ section 33, in Washington township, 

 on the land of John Oswald ; and near the same place on the land of 

 Seth Snyder, at the junction of the Totti Creek with the Wabash. It 

 appears again in the Wabash, N. W. \ section 22, of the same township, 

 land of Philip Gardner. It is also said to have been formerly taken from 

 the Wabash at Monterey for quicklime. In sections 7 and 8, Jefferson 

 township, the Niagara rises near the surface of the Drift and is seen in 

 a number of exposures. On the S. W. J section 7 it is worked by Dr. 

 Walter. The stone is here similar to that seen in the Wabash at Fort 

 Recovery. The beds are about three inches in thickness, lenticular, 

 vesicular, fossiliferous, rapidly rusting with peroxide of iron. It finally 

 weathers a light buff. Exposure, about three feet ; dip, undistinguish- 

 able. On the S. W. J section 8 Mr. Thomas Godfrey has a quarry in 

 similar beds for purposes of lime-burning, and has- opened them to the 

 depth of about four feet. On the N. W. j section 8 Herbert Richardson 

 owns a quarry in the same beds. The dip here is unmistakable, and 

 about eight degrees toward the south-west. The beds are here exposed 

 to the depth of about nine feet, without showing much variation. In 

 the State survey of the Wabash for ditching purposes, the surveyor re- 

 ports rock struck at thirteen different places, in all cases but one covered 

 with alluvium or Drift, sometimes to the depth of eleven feet. At a 

 point three miles west of Celina the rock was not so covered, on land of 

 Herbert Richardson and Sylvester Brooks. It is said to have a dip to 

 the south. On the N. E. \ section 32, Liberty township, Joseph Felver 

 has taken stone from the bed of the Wabash. Near the State line D. W. 

 and John Leininger have quarries in the valley of the Wabash, on op- 

 posite sides of the stream. It is here of the same character as already 

 described, and belongs to the Guelph of the Niagara. This character 

 of the formation prevails as far west at least as New Corydon, in Jay 

 county, Indiana, where it is quarried and burned for lime. It is also 

 met at Willshire, in Van Wert county, where Mrs. Ann Ramsey has 

 burned lime and taken out stone for foundations from the bed of the St. 

 Mary's and of a small stream tributary to it. The dip here cannot be 

 made out with certainty. It is a porous and fossiliferous rock, in beds 

 of about three inches, of a light blue color when freshly broken, but 

 which soon weathers buff. On section 8, Dublin township, within the 

 limits of the Godfrey Indian Reserve, Mr. Claiborne Work has opened a 

 quarry in the river bottoms of the St. Mary's, disclosing the same char- 

 acters of the Niagara. This quarry at the present time affords feeble 

 opportunity to examine the formation, yet pieces which were gathered 



