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ditching for the drainage of the Medary Swamp. At one point, forty 
rods south-east of the center of section 6, large bones, supposed to have 
belonged to that animal, were found in a sandy loam along the north 
side of the Leipsic Ridge. A large oak tree is said to have stood over 
the spot. In section 8 the remains exhumed consisted of fragments of a 
tusk about five inches in diameter, two teeth, and bones from the poste- 
rior extremities. They had the appearance of having been broken be- 
fore being deposited in their present positions. The large bone belong- 
ing to the posterior extremities was removed twenty-three feet from the 
fragments of the tusk, and near it were no other remains. On its under 
side the natural surface had been fractured, and the cellular tissue ex- 
posed in large spots. With the exception of the teeth, nothing could be 
preserved entire. The whole lay about three feet below the surface. 
Throughout this swamp, so far as revealed by ditching, there is a deposit 
of six inches of black muck, underlain by two feet of nearly black clay, 
probably so stained by vegetable decomposition, and an unknown thick- 
ness of hard-pan, filled with gravel, on the original surface of which are 
occasional large bowlders. Large bones are also said to have been found 
near the surface of the Drift on Samuel Purkey’s land, section 7, town- 
ship of Ottawa. 
MATERIAL RESOURCES. ~ 
The Waterlime in Putnam county is more than usually adapted to 
purposes of general building. While it is without that massive and 
rough condition so often seen in Wood and Ottawa counties, it still has 
not acquired the thin, laminated condition of the T’ymochtee slate of Wy- 
andot county. Hence the quarries of the county generally supply the 
demand for all stone, even the most massive, although the facilities of 
transportation by the Miami Canal are so ample that the “ Dayton stone” 
of Prof. Orton, from the Niagara, is found in use in the western part of 
the county, as well as stone from the Lower Corniferous quarries at Char- 
loe, in Paulding county. The surface of the Drift in Putnam county 
affords in many places a superior clay for tiling, brick, and red pottery. 
That used at Ottawa by Mr. Samuel Row and Mr. D. D. Mullet may be 
cited in illustration. It is almost entirely without stones and sand. The 
manufactured article is very firm and dense. A peculiarity was noticed 
at Mr. Row’s tile-yard. Wherever they are touched by the hand, or 
bruised by contact with each other, or with the machinery, before burn- 
ing, the pieces turn, in burning, to a light ash, or cream color, and come 
out of the kiln variously marked. Corners which had been trimmed 
with a knife are uniformly of this color, and very hard, almost glazed, the 
general color of the piece being brick red. Crevices within the clay con- 
