16. TOBOYXE TOWNSHIP. F a . 349 



16. Toboyne township. 



This is the largest and most mountainous township in 

 Perry county. Tuscarora mountain on the north and Blue 

 mountain on the south are connected by minor folds each of 

 which composes a mountain in itself. The natural line or 

 water-shed dividing the drainage of Perry and Franklin 

 counties is consequently exceedingly crooked, zigzagging 

 backward and forward from southeast to northwest over the 

 western and southern part of this township. Conecocheague, 

 Round Top, Rising mountain, Amberson ridge. Bower 

 mountain, and the Blue range are only so many folds of the 

 Medina sandstone. 



All the mountains named above except Conecocheague 

 and Blue are anticlinal in structure, forming arches of sand- 

 stone. Conecocheague is a monocline or half- arch dipping 

 to the south and Blue mountain a monocline dipping to the 

 north. 



The headwaters of Sherman 's creek now from the slopes 

 of the mountains of Toboyne township. The real head of 

 this stream is in a swamp on the north slope of Amberson 

 ridge known as the Bear ponds. In wet seasons these are 

 really three large pools of water, the oveitfiow from which 

 forms the longest branch of several that contribute to form 

 the main stream, here called by some Patterson' s run. But 

 in a dry time they are reduced to small swampy patches of 

 ground. From this point the brook takes its way across 

 Jiisi ng mountain, which is here cut down to its base, and 

 then enters on its long passage over the red and green shale 

 and sandstone of the lowlands of west Perry county. It is 

 joined by several runlets from the Round Top and Coneco- 

 cheagne, one of which is fed by the great spring on the 

 mountain between New Germantown and Concord. 



Brow it s run rising near the Bear ponds, but on the other 

 side of a low water-shed, flows down the long and narrow 



