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north-easterly to Scotch Ridge village, probably without receding more 
than a quarter of a mile from the bank of the river. It continues in 
about the same direction to section 23, Troy township, where it forms an 
acute angle, and returns nearly due west to section 22, in Webster town- 
ship, where it is diverted a little more southward to a point about two 
miles east of Tontogany. It here turns still more south to section 8, 
Liberty township, where it forms another acute angle, and runs to Port- 
age village. 
The most northern exposure of the first-described area of Niagara is on 
the county line, section 1, Freedom township. It is known as “Caler’s 
Ridge,” and has the characters of the Guelph. Itis a buff, vesicular stone, 
In beds usually of four to eight inches, or rougher and more massive in 
beds of a foot thick, nearly destitute of fossils, weathering a light buff, 
and crumbling sometimes like chalk. It holds a deposit of lake sand. 
The next point south within the county is in the southern part of sec- 
tion 1, Montgomery township, where the ridge it forms is also capped 
with sand. This sandy tract runs south-west, in the form of a soft, beach- 
like ridge, on which a road is located, into section 29. It is probably on 
the line of outcrop of Niagara. In the south-eastern part of the township 
of Montgomery there is considerable wet and prairie land which is.closely 
underlain by the Niagara. The rock may be seen in frequent outcrops 
in sections 25, 26, 35, and 36. This stony region extends also into San- 
dusky county, and is locally known as Stony Barter. In some places the 
Drift has been so washed away, leaving the bowlders, that piles of stones 
in the fields from which they have been gathered have the frequency and 
very much the appearance of hay-cocks in a harvest-field. The fence 
corners are also filled with them. About two-thirds of these loose pieces 
are fragments of Niagara, probably from the underlying rock not far 
away. The remainder are bowlders of northern origin. They are all 
rounded and water-worn. In Perry township the Niagara forms a ridge 
ov the land of John Norris and of Justus Stearns, in S. W. + section 14. 
It may also be seen in sections 25 and 24. On Judge Ash’s land it is 
opened for macadamizing roads, and shows the features and fossils of the 
Guelph phase. 
In Bloom township there are several hundreds of acres of land in which 
the Niagara is either quite bare or the soil is so thin that no attempt is 
made to plow it. Mr. John Frank owns such a stony tract in S. H. + sec- 
tion 31. East and north from this place, along the north side of the 
Belmore Ridge, the Niagara may frequently be seen. Large fragments 
are gathered from the fields, and piled, with northern bowlders, in the 
streets. Different individuals burn lime from these loose pieces. On 
