Calling attention to the fact that the Edem beds are the ones that constitute the least fertile of the Ordovician lands, he suggests that a systematic replanting of timber in the Eden areas w r ould be of exceeding value to the State. The suggestion 6 KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. should receive the serious consideration not only of land-owners, but of the General Aseembly. Such reforesting would not only provide woods for the younger and coming generations, but would serve to limit floods,

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... springs, renew soils, and thus enhance the values of the lands. The other suggestion, whicli raises a question as to the existence of "valuable ore deposits"' in Central Kentucky, and limits the conditions permitting vein formation to the Kentucky river region, is not so well considered, unless, as seems probable, Professor Nickles had in mind only the Cineinnatian areas. It is true that no veins have been found in the latter, and that probably none will be found; but, as is shown in other reports, it is a well-determined fact that there are many vein deposits in the interior counties, in the Mohawkian series, away from the Kentucky river, which will doubtless prove of value.