Terraces
We quote from Prof. G. Frederick Wright, Ober- lin. "Almost without exception, the streams flowing southward from the glaciated area show marks of former floods from fifty to a hundred feet higher than any which now occur. Gravel deposits from fifty to a hundred feet higher than the present flood plain, line the valley of everyone of these streams, not only where they lie in the glaciated region, but through much of their course after they have emerged from the glaciated into the unglaciated region." This can be noticed in Thorn township, along the valley of Jonathan Creek. Has anybody in Thorn township ever noticed it? It is in these terraces that the so- called palaeolithic implements have been found, which show that man lived here before the ice came. Gold is often found in these terraces. It is called "Drift Gold." Some of it was discovered along the Licking river several years ago.10