American Journal of Science Volume 25 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...is hilly; but the industry of its inhabitants has filled it with valuable and productive farms. Its principal agricultural prosperity is derived from the crops of wheat, which are fine and abundant; and they are made so, chiefly, by the system of " clovering." This grass affords excellent pasturage for cattle, sheep and hogs; and when turned under the earth, greatly improves the soil, and after one or two changes, reappears in the form of dollars and eagles, to enrich and repay the labors of the husbandman. Other sources of wealth lie deeper in the earth, and are found in the salt, the coal, and the iron; each of which annually yields many thousand dollars to the capital of the county. The present population amounts to thirty two thousand. Moxahela Creek, and its geology. Soon after leaving Putnam, on the great western rond, we come into the valley of the Moxahela Creek, and travel along its borders for several miles. It rises in Perry County, and running in a north easterly direction across a part of Muskingum County, falls into the river three miles below Putnam. It is a handsome stream, about thirty yards in width. The present inhabitants, without regard to euphony, or the prior right of a much more harmonious name given it by the aborigines, call it "Jonathan's Creek." The bed is composed of shelly limestone, worn down into the solid rock, four or five feet, by the abrasion of its waters. The surface of the rock is regularly divided every six or eight feet, by horizontal seams, several inches wide, running in a south westerly direction, the whole width of the creek, and doubtless continues under the adjacent hills. They have the appearance of cracks, made by the contraction of a semi-Quid body passing into a solid state. Immediately over the...