3. CENTRE TOWNSHIP. F\ 169 



3. Centre township. 



A. General description. 



Centre township is bounded on the north by Little Buf- 

 falo creek, which divides it from Juniata and Saville. On 

 the west lie Saville and Spring. The Carroll and Wheatfield 

 line follows the crest of Iron ridge and Dick's hill. Hort- 

 ing's run parts it from Oliver and Miller. Its extreme 

 length from east to west is about eight miles and its great- 

 est breadth from north to south about four miles. Its area 

 is about thirty square miles. 



The only town it contains is New Bloomneld, the county- 

 seat, lying very near its center and containing about six! 

 hundred inhabitants. 



Centre township affords a good type on the small scale of 

 Perry county. Its surface is broken by ridges of high 

 ground ranging from east-northeast to west-southwest. The 

 most northerly of these skirts the south bank of the Little 

 Buffalo and is called the Buffalo hills. It consists of a suc- 

 cession of steep- sided heights well clad with small timber 

 and separated by deep, narrow ravines or gaps, locally 

 called "narrows," where the hemlock-spruce and other 

 shade-loving trees find a congenial home. Some of these 

 passes afford the most beautiful bits of scenery in Centre 

 township. A narrow road usually winds along beside a 

 small brook and is often completely overhung with spruces 

 and pines. Here may be found in profusion the sword- 

 fern, {Polystichum acrostichoides,) the common Polypody, 

 (Polypodium vulgare,) the ebony spleenwort, (Asplenium 

 ebenenm^) and other plants that delight in coolness or 

 moisture. 



Limestone ridge running almost parallel with the pre- 

 ceding consists of a number of minor ridges with intervening 

 valleys. The passes through this range present none of the 



