412 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
It makes a white lime of great quickness and strength. The Niagara is 
again seen in the Wabash, N. W. 4 section 33, in Washington township, 
on the land of John Oswald; and near the same place on the land of 
Seth Snyder, at the junction of the Totti Creek with the Wabash. It 
appears again in the Wabash, N. W. i section 22, of the same township, 
land of Philip Gardner. It is also said to have been formerly taken from 
the Wabash at Monterey for quicklime. In sections 7 and 8, Jefferson 
township, the Niagara rises near the surface of the Drift and is seen in 
a number of exposures. On the S. W. } section 7 it is worked by Dr. 
Walter. The stone is here similar to that seen in the Wabash at Fort 
Recovery. The beds are about three inches in thickness, lenticular, 
vesicular, fossiliferous, rapidly rusting with peroxide of iron. It finally 
weathers a light buff. Exposure, about three feet ; dip, undistinguish- 
able. On the 8. W. + section 8 Mr. Thomas Godfrey has a quarry in 
similar beds for purposes of lime-burning, and has opened them to the 
depth of about four feet. On the N. W. 4 section 8 Herbert Richardson 
owns a quarry in the same beds. The dip here is unmistakable, and 
about eight degrees téward the south-west. The beds are here exposed 
to the depth of about nine feet, without showing much variation. In 
the State survey of the Wabash for ditching purposes, the surveyor re- 
ports rock struck at thirteen different places, in all cases but one covered 
with alluvium or Drift, sometimes to the depth of eleven feet. At a 
point three miles west of Celina the rock was not so covered, on land of 
Herbert Richardson and Sylvester Brooks. It is said to have a dip to 
the south. On the N. E. 7 section 52, Liberty township, Joseph Felver 
has taken stone from the bed of the Wabash. Near the State line D. W. 
and John Leininger have quarries in the valley of the Wabash, on op- 
posite sides of the stream. It is here of the same character as already 
described, and belongs to the Guelph of the Niagara. This character 
of the formation prevails as far west at least as New Corydon, in Jay 
county, Indiana, where it is quarried and burned for lime. It is also 
met at Willshire, in Van Wert county, where Mrs. Ann Ramsey has 
burned lime and taken out stone for foundations from the bed of the St. 
Mary’s and of a small stream tributary to it. The dip here cannot be 
made out with certainty. It is a porous and fossiliferous rock, in beds 
of about three inches, of a light blue color when freshly broken, but 
which soon weathers buff. On section 8, Dublin township, within the 
limits of the Godfrey Indian Reserve, Mr. Claiborne Work has opened a 
quarry in the river bottoms of the St. Mary’s, disclosing the same char- 
acters of the Niagara. This quarry at the present time affords feeble 
opportunity to examine the formation, yet pieces which were gathered 
