546 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
Leatherwood, a branch of Wills Creek, on the west. The central part of 
the township, which constitutes the divide, or water-shed, between the 
several streams, is high, and with its fertile soil and salubrious air pre- 
sents many attractions. This ridge is becoming somewhat celebrated 
-for its fine fruit. The railroad, as it ascends to the high ground from the 
Leatherwood valley, presets admirable opportunities for making a sec- 
tion of the strata, which are well exposed in the various cuts. The low- 
est strata in the section are found near the heavy embankment, or fill, 
across the Leatherwood valley. The history of this fill shows well the 
peculiar difficulties which railroad companies often meet with in using 
the clays found in our Coal Measures. When saturated with water they 
are like a mortar-bed in the embankment, and slide away, and more ma- 
terial must be added to the top. Unfortunately, there is no gravel in all 
this region nearer than the banks of the Ohio River. No traces of Drift 
were seen in southern Belmont county, nor in Monroe county, except the 
modified or terraced Drift along the Ohio River, and none of any kind in 
Guernsey. A section of the strata seen in the railroad cuts from Barnes- 
ville west is as follows: 
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