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Anderson’s Fork rises on the line of water-shed to the south of Reese- 
ville, and flows in a circling channel, bending from north to west, and 
- emptying into Ceesar’s Creek, at a point without the county. No where 
in its course is this stream far above bedded stone, and at some points it” 
runs upon strata of the Niagara formation, as at places in the “ Prairie,” 
at Judge King’s, and at Port William it cuts through a portion of the 
pentamerus beds of this formation, where, besides the bed of the creek 
being wholly of this stone, the banks, from five to ten feet high, are also 
of the same. Above Port William the stream issluggish, and traverses, 
for some ten or twelve miles, a district of marked character, known as 
the “ Prairie,” a tract of wonderful fertility, of deep, black loam, and which 
has been, at no very distant past time, the location of a shallow lake or 
swamp. The highest land, I suppose, in the county is north-east of this 
** Prairie,’ and is, perhaps, not far from seven hundred feet above low- 
water mark at Cincinnati. I was not able to obtain the elevations of 
the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Railroad, which traverses both 
the counties of Clinton and Fayette, and therefore lack some data neces- 
sary to state with exactness the elevations of the different parts of these 
counties. But by the kindness of Mr. J. H. Klippart, of Columbus, I 
obtained those of the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, and shall have 
to refer the elevations of the portions of these counties to those of this 
road. The highest point in Clinton county on the Cincinnati and Mari- 
etta Railroad is a point a little east of Vienna, which is 7374 feet above 
low-water mark at Cincinnati. Anderson’s Fork receives but few tribu- 
taries in all its course, the tract which it drains being comparatively 
long and narrow. The bedded stone in its channel is of the Niagara 
formation as far down as the Lumberton quarries, where it strikes and 
cuts nearly through the formation known to geologists as Clinton, and at 
a point a few miles further down stream, at Ingall’s Dam, just outside of 
Clinton county, it cuts about four feet of purple-red shale underlying the 
Clinton, and strikes the higher strata of the Cincinnati group, or Blue 
Limestone. | 
Todd’s Fork, with its tributaries, drains the central and western part 
of the county. Running in a course in general parallel with the last 
named stream, and within three or four miles of it during the most of 
its course, it could receive few and unimportant tributaries on the side 
next to that creek, of which Dutch Creek is the only one worthy of being 
named. On the other side there are three, which I shall mention. The 
smallest of these is Lytle’s Creek, draining the immediate vicinity of 
Wilmington, and along which the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley 
Railroad runs.. Cowan’s Creek rises on the north of the “Snow Hill” 
