Part I. Report of progress in 1869, by J. S. Newberry, chief geologist. Part II. Report of progress in the second district, by E. B. Andrews, assist. geologist. Part III. Report on geology of Montgomery County, by Edward Orton, assist. geologist.

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high and steep. The following altitudes were taken by the barometer:
Butterworth's hill, four miles north of Rome, Adams county, 543 feet
above the bed of Stout's run. On the Longhery hill, east of the mouth
of Rock run, at Rockville, Adams county, the stratum of fossiliferous
sand rock is 440 feet above the bed of the run, and there are probably
50 or 60 feet of the hill above that stratum, making the hill at least 500
feet high. The altitude of the picturesque dwelling of Hon. W. J. Flagg,
on the hill between the two Twin creeks, Scioto county, is 505 feet above
the lower Twin creek bridge. This corresponds very nearly with an
instrumental survey made by Mr. Flagg for the location of a road.
Raven Rock hill, about three miles below Portsmouth, was found to be
508 feet high. On the top is a cairn of stones. The highest point in the
range ot the high and picturesque hills in Kentucky, directly opposite
Portsmouth, is 527 feet above the alluvial bottom as the base.
The height of the first Ohio river hill on the Ohio side above Portsmouth, is 402 feet. This is not high enough to take the coarse coal
measure sandstone. On the top are the remains of an Indian or moundbuilder lookout. On the next hill to the east, the coarse coal-measure
sand rock shows at an elevation of 416 feet, where it is 15 feet thick.
Forty-five (45) feet below the sand rock is a stratum of blue fire clay,
from three to four feet thick. This is doubtless the equivalent of the
seam of fire clay worked by Mr. Taylor, one mile further east. Mr. Taylor's hill is 388 feet above the alluvial bottom. His clay is one foot seven
inches thick, and lies 22 feet below the top of the hill. This clay is
doubtless the same in geological position with that extensively quarried
on the hills near Sciotoville. The finer grained upper Waverly rocks
show themselves 10 feet below Mr. Taylor's fire clay.
The height of the hill back of Josiah Merrill's landing, in Kentucky,
10 miles above Portsmouth, is 330 feet. The sub-carboniferous limestone
is extensively deposited in the hill, and measures 46 feet thick. It is 215
feet above the base of the hill.
FOSSILS OF THE WAVERLY.
The Waverly group contains impressions of marine plants throughout
its whole vertical range. They are the Spirophyta of Hall, in several
species and stems of numerous fucoidal plants. The Spirophyta abound
in the productive coal measures, as will be shown hereafter. A small
fragment of a Dictophyton, Hall, was found at Buena Vista, in the "city
ledge" sandstone. The upper Waverly contains several forms of marine
plants, as yet undescribed. The lower Waverly, on the Ohio river, is
found to be very barren of animal fossils. Not a single one of any kind
was found in the 137 feet of sandstones and blue sandy shales lying below
the Waverly black slate. The black slate contains, as has already been
stated, two forms of brachiopoda, Lingula sub-spatulata and Discina