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beds penetrate the hill to the south. In all probability the outcrop 
will also be found following the face of the hills that skirt the valley 
of Whitewater Creek along its right bank. 
In the Chambersville-Hampton road, a little more than a mile south 
of the outcrop last mentioned, similar potter's clay is exposed in a 
gully on the north side of the road. 
About 2 miles south of the point where the same road crosses 
Whitewater Creek potter's clays are exposed again by the roadside 
in the brow of a low hill facing northwest. This place is probably 
in the SW. \ sec, 15, T. 12 S., R. 13 W., about a quarter of a mile 
southeast of Dawson's schoolhouse, The following is the section 
exposed : 
Section in SW. \ sec. 15, T. 12 S., R. 13 W. 
Soil with pebbles and silicified wood. Feet. 
Greenish lead-colored clay 5 
Brown coal 2 
Clayey sands (base concealed) 4 
Some of the cobbles in the soil overlying this section are 6 inches 
in diameter. With the exception of the fossil wood and a little 
quartz they are all of novaculite. 
The outcrops of clay and brown coal extend both to the north and 
south of the road. 
A little more than a mile south of Chambersville, probably in the 
SW. \ sec. 27, T. 11 S., R. 13 W., on Henry Clay's place, a bed of 
potter's clay 4 or 5 feet thick is exposed beside the road. It con- 
tains a few leaf impressions, and in general appearance closely resem- 
bles the clays used at Perla. This clay bed will be found to con- 
tinue to the east of the Chambersville-Hampton road into the woods, 
while to the west it skirts the low hill north and west of Henry Clay's 
farmhouse. 
Mr. Siebenthal reports a bed of gray plastic clay, from 6 to 10 feet 
thick, on the railway at a place where it crosses from Cleveland 
County into Calhoun County, in sec. 4, T. 11 S., R. 13 W., and the 
same bed again about 500 paces west of the first-mentioned exposure. 
Good pottery clay is reported on the Jordan place, in sec. 6 of this 
same township, and also on the Lightfoot place, 1 mile south of 
Little Bay. 
So far as the geology of Calhoun County has been studied it leads 
to the conclusion that the pottery clays will be found in a long series 
of outcrops skirting the Champanolle on both sides and along the 
west side of Moro Creek, following up the larger streams like White- 
water. They will be found also in the hillsides along the upper part 
of Locust Bayou and along the east side of Two Bayou toward its 
head. These clay beds vary in thickness and in character, but for 
all practical purposes they may be regarded as inexhaustible. 
