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rise between two prongs of the east branch of the Moccasin. The same thing 

 occurs near the headwaters of Ray's Creek and the middle prong of Potter's 

 Creek. On the eastern end of the ridge the different headwaters of the Eight- 

 Mile, ilaggerty's, and Watkins' creeks interlock with each other so as to pre- 

 sent a complicated series of low rounded hills and deeply cut stream channels. 



On the northern side, going west from Marshall, a series of creeks known 

 as Potter's, Caney, Page, Moccasin, Panther, and Clear flow north into 

 Cypress. These creeks have cut narrow, deep ravines through the sands 

 and clays along their upper portions, and have formed tortuous channels 

 through comparatively wide sandy bottoms as they near their respective 

 points of junction with the Cypress. Most of these streams have their origin 

 in springs and have deep, steep-sided, rounded heads, with occasional over- 

 hanging banks. 



Numerous small streams exist throughout the region, having a tendency to 

 form the country into the appearance of a double comb, having the back or 

 main ridge extending in an easterly and westerly direction and the latteral 

 spurs turning in a north and south or somewhat northeasterly and southwest- 

 erly direction. In many cases the latteral spurs have an elevation equal to 

 the main ridge. 



The part of the county lying to the north of the Little Cypress forms a 

 plateau-like region, much broken by stream courses. This region lies at a 

 much lower elevation than the country to the south of the creek. 



Its southern side, along the Little Cypress Creek, rises somewhat abruptly 

 from the bottom lands. At Jones' Crossing, near the Upshur County line, 

 the difference of elevation between the creek bottom and the hills along the 

 southern boundary of the plateau is ninety-six feet. At Allan's Crossing the 

 upland shows*an elevation of two hundred and sixty-two feet and the bottom 

 lands two hundred and eleven, a difference of fifty-one feet. Coming east- 

 ward, at Sloan's Bridge the side of the table land rises from two hundred 

 and ten feet to three hundred and forty feet in a distance of two miles. The 

 levels of the Marshall and Northwestern Railway show an increased eleva- 

 tion of from two hundred and eight at the bridge over the Cypress Creek to 

 two hundred and sixty-nine at the eastern side of the ore field. In the two 

 last places the ascent is made by successive easy, bench-like grades, due proba- 

 bly to the presence of beds of laminated ore in the hnls of gray sand peculiar 

 to this northern section of the county. 



Along the southern side of the plateau, going west, there are only three 

 creeks of any size; Bear Creek, to the action of which is due largely the abrupt 

 termination of the plateau in its eastern extension ; Lick Creek, near the cen- 

 tre of the region, and Eagle Creek, in the western end. 



To the south and east of these ridges the country is rolling and in places 



