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where there is a post-office. The falls will admit 

 of extensive water-works, and the country around 

 them consists of a rich soil. Two miles below 

 the falls, Point river has washed away the side of 

 a hill that bordered on the bank, which has ex- 

 posed to view a great variety of fossils. The 

 hill, which is supposed to be nearly 400 feet high, 

 seems to consist principally of lamina of slate 

 stone. These lamina appear to be cemented to- 

 gether by allum and copperas, which is melted and 

 runs out by the heat of the sun. It is collected by 

 the inhabitants and applied to common use. There 

 are round lumps of a mineral substance, from the 

 size of a turkey's egg to .that of a large common 

 ball, frequently rolling down, which appear to 

 contain sulphur, lead, and copper. In the vicinity 

 of Point river, which runs into the Scioto, are a 

 great variety of ochres and pigments of different 

 colours, as well as minerals, which would afford 

 an ample field for the investigation of the miner- 

 alogists. Many sulphur springs gush out from 

 the hills in the neighbourhood of this river. 



South of the State road, and between Point and 

 the Ohio, is a large range of steep hills, called the 

 Sunfish Hills, from a stream of that name which 

 drains them and discharges itself into the Ohio. 

 They are about forty miles wide from Point to the 

 Ohio, and 'about sixty miles long from the Scioto 

 to the Little Miami. The greater part of these hills 

 are so steep and broken that no settlements can be 

 made upon them. But in those parts of them 



