318 ) GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
eraphical horizon must be nearly or quite the same. At this place it 
can also be profitably worked for a building stone when the settlement 
of the county shall have progressed so far as to demand a cut-stone of 
such quality. At the present time it is used somewhat for foundations ; 
but the abundance of stone generally throughout the county retards the 
special development of superior qualities. The following section was 
taken at this place, a portion of it being from the N.H. 4 section 12, 
Liberty township : 
DoWNWARD SECTION OF THE WATERLIME AT PoRTAGE, Woop County. 
No. 1. Soft, drab, somewhat vesicular, weathermeg a buff color; 
beds, six to sixteen inches; texture generally homoge- 
neous, similar to the magnesian and harsh, thick beds 
oljtheiower, Cormitenrouspess te eee en eer eee 2 ft. 4 in. 
‘““ 2 Harder, crystalline, with a darker color, showing some 
bituminous films, which, on fracture, appear as black, 
horizontal streaks. In this member there is a tendency 
to an oOlitic structure, seen sometimes in patches, or 
in beds horizontally continuous, with a thickness of a 
quarter of an inch to three inches; beds three to eight 
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This section is displayed on the land of William Sargent. The dip is 
toward the south and south-east. At the crossing of the road between 
the two townships it is ten to fifteen degrees south-east. The land rises 
toward the north and north west, caused by the appearance of the 
Niagara. Hast of the bridge about forty rods,'thin and slaty beds are 
seen in the river, some of which are so bituminous as to burn like coal. 
Twenty rods further down, on land of Mrs. J. L. Roland, the rock appears 
hard, crystalline, dark drab, almost brecciated, yet in regular beds of 
sixteen to twenty inches; dip, south-west. This prebably overlies the 
layers of the foregoing section, since, the dip continuing the same, the 
soft, magnesian, drab beds (No. 1 of the section) appear with a thickness 
of fourteen to twenty inches, affording opportunities for a profitable 
quarry. 
Near Mill Grove, in Perry township, the Waterlime in loose pieces 
has been burned for quicklime on the farm of Winfield DeWitt. It also 
appears in regular beds of two to four inches in the Hast Branch of the 
Portage, at the village, and again in the McCutchenville road, N. H.4 
section 9, in similar layers; also further south, in the same section, in 
thick beds. In the 8. W.+4 section 17, Mr. Daniel Pelton obtains good 
flagging stone from the Waterlime, one to three inches in thickness. On 
