486 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
same field. These small sandstone deposits are quite common in that 
neighborhood, and, in fact, the whole appearance of the rocks is so sandy 
that Mr. George G. Shumard reported the following section in the pros-' 
pectus of the “ Logan and Champaign Petroleum Company,” in 1865: 
FEET. 
1. Drift, gravel, and bowlders of sienite, gneiss, red feldspar, hornblende 
(and smica schist) quartz onindstoneyseene eee eee a ena 30 
2. Biack and dark-brown bituminous slate..--...-----. 2.2222 --ecee ee eee 40: 
3. Hard, fine-grained, light-gray silicious sandsione (as far as exposedy..... 3 
4° Blackiand\ dark-brown bibaminous slatone seem ee eee ee ee 60 
& Hard, light-blue, fine-grained, siliciows sandstone ..........-...-.---.. 4 
6. Black and dark-brown bituminous slate, containing large septarian seg- 
regations and nodules of irom pyrites --...---22.-2-25 2255 eek leek 150 
%. Hard, light-gray, calcareo-siliciaus sandstone, thickness as far as exposed. 20 
a77 
Mr. J. M. Inskeep, who worked the drill for the said company, reports 
the section obtained on B. Ewing’s land, in southern part of Monroe 
township, as follows : 
FEEP 
STG es SS ee a Sy pel ears va arta ne a aN Eta ae Oca 6 
DER Yaa beni ea A Ls GN A SSO UREA SRT Se NN aaa pee er A EE Be te aN eh 5 
SANASbOM Es Se Se ee NSH a ON IR GIA SA oR AY alee a atts ate ato ea an UCC aR 639 
RRS Seabee hse etn Ses BR SE SE PAO SEU SE A ee Ola AR tL MO a AO #2 
Bl WES liMeStTORE; Ves oh ee a I Ls Ns SU Ie UNE Sad ae tt tn EN 43. 
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At that point patience, hope, and funds failed, and the project was 
abandoned. It is much to be regretted that a more careful or more skill- 
ful record was not kept of this boring. The “flint 5 feet” evidently was 
the upper course of the Corniferous, but it is difficult to understand what 
could be included in “639 feet of sandstone.” Mr. Shumard’s second, 
third, and fourth divisions evidently refer to the Huron shale, and his 
fifth to the upper courses of the Corniferous, but his sixth and seventh 
would seem to be purely imaginary or very much confused. 
There are traditions of a former sandstone quarry on the hili top east 
of Zanesfield, from which the neighborhood was supped with grind- 
stones, and some still hope that it will be rediscovered. But Dr. B.S. 
Brown, of Bellefontaine, whose retentive memory carries the treasures 
of nearly three-quarters of-a century of close observation, dissipates this 
hope and vindicates geology by remembering how the ancient mason 
hewed his grindstones from an immense (Waverly) sandstone bowlder, 
and split his millstones from granitic ones. There is now another large 
mass of Waverly sandstone lying on the side of a slate valiey on Mack- 
achack, half buried in gravel and the debris of slate, and it has been 
