lligli Level De/iosifs of Kenfuckji h'/rers. — Jlil/ej\ 2S3 
•deposits in the lower eoiir.se of this stream, baek of Newport 
300 feet above the river and at Flatwoods 11 miles further up 
stream. They occur at other points, as at Upper Blue Licks 
in Flemming county, where Coal Measure conglomerate peb- 
bles were noticed as high as 300 feet above the river (875 feet, 
barometric, above tide). No traces of pebbles could be found 
in the soils at corresponding bights on the North fork of the 
Licking, where it is crossed b}'^ the Maysville and Lexington 
pike. The North fork does not tap with its headwaters the 
<'onglomerate region, and this seems a sutticient reason why 
evidence of a former submergence is wanting. The stream 
was not supplied \vith materials resistant enough to line off 
ancient high water levels. 
Tile evidences of the former flooded condition of the Ken- 
tucky river are of the same character. Wherever search has 
been made for them, they have been found. At Waco in Mad- 
ison county, on Devonian black shale uplands, four miles from 
the river and at a probable elevation of 300 feet above it (850 
feet above tide), are deposits of saiid and clay beautifully 
stratified. Farther down the river, near the mouth of Marble 
creek, on the Jessamine county side, at about the same eleva- 
tion (850 feet), the upland soils are strewn thickly with Coal 
Measure conglomerate pebbles, the same as seen on the Lick- 
ing, and some Subcarboniferous geodes. Again, near the 
southern limits of this county, near Little Hicknum post of- 
fice, and also near Camp Nelson, where the river reaches its 
extreme southern deflection in its efforts to cross the Cincin- 
nati axis — right upon the summit of the anticline in fact — 
are found waterworn Keokuk geodes, blocks of Coal Measure 
sandstone as large as 18 inches in diameter and tln^se same 
conglomerate gravels. The latter extend up to a hight of 350 
feet above the river (850 feet above tide), — to the very top, in 
fact, of the caiion-like gorge which the river is forced to make 
in cutting its way across the backbone of the arch. Above 
Little Hickman post oflfice the Kentucky River fault leaves the 
river to the southeast, and, following down Hig Hickman creek, 
cuts off' a large bend of the river, which is four to six miles 
across. The more rounded hills of the lower aiul middle Hud- 
son River beds, brought down on a level with tlie Birdseye by 
this fault, are included in this bend. They are everywhere 
