15. SPRING TOWNSHIP. F\ 331 



15. Spring township. 



Spring township is long from north to south and rather 

 narrow from east to west, measuring about 9 miles in the 

 former by 5 in the latter direction. It contains about 30 

 square miles of surface. Its only considerable water-course 

 is Sherman's creek, which carries away the whole of its 

 drainage. 



Spring is less mountainous than those townships lying 

 to the east of it. It has, however, several short portions of 

 ranges, the greater part of which belong elsewhere. 



Chief among these the Blue mountains form its southern 

 boundary for about three miles. This range presents here 

 the irregular summit that characterizes its whole course in 

 the county. It is crossed by two roads, one on the western 

 edge of the township called Waggoners gap, and the other 

 on the eastern edge. 



Mount Pisgah in the south of the township is a conspi- 

 cuous object in the scenery. It forms the meeting point of 

 the two ranges of Pisgah hill and Little mountain, both 

 consisting of the Hamilton sandstone. The two synclinal 

 outcrops here run out, and as is usual at such places their 

 union so thickens its mass that the ridge rises higher than 

 elsewhere. The waters, cut off in this angle of the mount- 

 ains, enter Sherman's creek below Gibson's rock. 



Three valleys of red and variegated shale cross the town- 

 ship from east to west. One of them occupies the northern 

 portion near Elliotsburg, and is a part of the vale of Bloom- 

 fleld, running up the middle of the county. The second is 

 in the middle round Bridgeport, and runs through into Car- 

 roll. The third is a narrow strip in the south between the 

 Blue and Little mountains, and forms a portion of what is 

 known as Thudium's trad. 



