PAULDING COUNTY. 343 
No. 1 of this section does not appear in Paulding county, except in 
the form of floating pieces transported with the Drift. It is fully de- 
scribed in reports on other counties. 
No. 2 appears in the Tiffin River, at Brunersburg, where it embraces 
a Shaly limestone which crumbles under the weather. Such limestone 
is in detached lumps and lenticular masses. It is washed out of the 
shale near Waldo, in Marion county, by the force of the water of the 
Olentangy, where it falls over a dam. It is entirely unfossiliferous, as 
well as the shale in which it lies. In north-western Ohio No. 2 is very 
much reduced from its observed thickness in Delaware county (80 feet), 
and is usually altogether wanting. It is evenly but very thin-bedded, 
and is closely related to the Huron shale (No. 1), with which it is inter- 
stratified in Delaware county. 
No. 5. This holds the place and exhibits most of the characters of 
the Tully limestone of New York. Its identity is not established on 
palzontological evidence. It is quarried at Florida, on the Maumee, 
and by Mr. Dilz, near Defiance. At the former place it is immediately 
overlain by the black slate. Its thickness is six to ten feet. 
No. 4 has a thickness in Delaware county of 35 feet, and probably it 
will not vary very much from that on the west side of the anticlinal. 
There are no exposures in these counties favorable for learning its aggre- 
gate thickness. In the season of 1871 a collection of fossils, character- 
istic of the Hamilton, was made in the N. EH. } section 30, Auglaize, in 
Paulding county. The species here gathered were those already enume- 
rated in the description of the outcrop at that place. Time was not 
sufficient then for determining certainly the relation of this stone to 
the rest of the blue limestone. In the season of 1872 this point was 
made the subject of careful investigation. The result arrived at was 
the conclusion that the beds that hold these Hamilton fossils are very 
near the bottom of the blue limestone. The evidence is not that of 
actual, observed superposition, but that which is based on a series of 
observations along the Auglaize valley on the dip of the underlying 
rocks. It is a very observable fact that the limestones of north-western 
Ohio are very evenly and regularly laid down, and have not been dis- 
turbed by any force so as to introduce exceptional, or even extraordinary, 
dip in any direction or degree. In passing along the valley of any of 
the streams that expose the rock, this fact is very apparent. The 
formations succeed each other in perfect conformity with the known 
general dip. It is so in Paulding county. The Waterlime, the lowest 
in the series of rocks in the county, occupies the most southerly part of 
the county. Its upper horizon unites with the Oriskany at Charloe. 
