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ridge. The internal structure shows a wavy and curling lamination, or 
variegations of dark and light drab. The texture, however, is usually 
not close. Such stone would be useful for ornamental work, owing to the 
thickness of the blocks, the ease of cutting, and the beauty of the sur- 
face. It would also probably resist sufficient pressure to warrant its use 
in large structures, though it should be first carefully tested. There is 
abundant exposure of this phase of the Waterlime in the bed of the 
Portage, about a mile south of Mr. Whitker’s. 
In Freedom township the Portage and its branches often disclose the 
Waterlime. In section 2 and N. W. 4 section 12 the thick, soft beds of 
phase No. 2 are uncovered by the current of the river, showing remark- 
able glacial grooves. ‘The same or similar beds are occasionally met 
with in ascending the Middle Branch of the Portage as far as New 
Rochester, where they have been used in the abutments of the highway 
bridge. These were quarried near the bridge, in blocks twelve to sixteen 
inches thick, and are mingled in the bridge with stone belonging to 
phase No. 3. It is again quarried, S. H. $ section 30, on the land of Sid- 
ney Calkins. It here affords large, even-grained blocks of eighteen to 
twenty-four inches thick. In sections 16, 17, 19, and 20 are very exten- 
sive deposits of lake sand, on ridges of Waterlime. These sometimes 
show the brecciated condition, but are also sometimes even-bedded. Mr. 
William Fish has a quarry in regularly laminated beds-on section 20, 
at the base of a bluff of brecciated rock. The rock, however, of these 
ridges is usually hid by sand, which rises in some places to the height 
of forty feet. At Pemberville (N. H. 4 section 10) the bed of the river is 
specially rocky. Not only are there detached masses of coarse, brecciated 
Waterlime, some as large as five feet by six feet by eight feet, covered 
with black lichen, lodged along the banks, but the bed of the river shows 
the various lithological features and changes of dip through which the 
rock is liable to pass in short intervals. A peculiarity of the Waterlime 
to become suddenly concretionary or massive is strikingly illustrated 
near Pemberville. In the midst of even and fine-grained: beds are seen 
a number of rough and massive patches which swell above the surround- 
ing surface. They are sometimes but two or three feet across, and may 
be ten or even thirty. The same peculiarity was observed in Ottawa 
county, and is believed to illustrate the manner of occurrence of the 
brecciated condition, or phase No.1, of the Waterlime. There is a heavy 
sand deposit on a Waterlime ridge, N. W.4 section 33, land owned by 
Thomas §. Carman, known generally as the “Clay Farm.” 
In Portage township the bed of the river, N. W. 4 section 7, exhibits 
very much the same kind of exposure as at Pemberville, and the strati- 
