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rocks are all thoroughly micaceous. The dip changes so that the 

 middle of the town is situated upon a geological basin or synclinal 

 axis, the same with that in Dover. Between Brighton and Skow- 

 hegan the ledges are very much concealed ; but the rocks are ev- 

 erywhere micaceous, though at Athens they are very argillaceous. 

 Going south from Skowhegan towards Waterville the clay slate 

 reappears, containing Nereites. 



Between Skowhegan and the south part of Bingham the same 

 mica schists occur as between Skowhegan and Brighton. We had 

 not the opportunity' of noting the variations in the dip. It is a 

 beautiful clay slate, with a high north-westerly dip, that is first 

 met with in Bingham. In Moscow the dip changes to the south- 

 east, hence forming a synclinal. Mr. George L. Goodale discov- 

 ered some gold by washing, near Carney's Hotel in the north part 

 of the town. Near the same locality was found several years since 

 the boulder of " eurite," or more properly, leopardite, described 

 last year on page 202. Mr. Carney kindly presented the stone 

 to us to be placed in the geological collection at Portland. It is 

 handsomer than any that have been obtained "from Charlotte, N. 



C. The manner in which the black stems could have been pro- 

 duced in the white quartz rock will afford abundant opportunity 

 for speculation. It would be a matter of great interest to find other 

 boulders of this rock, or the ledge from which it has been drifted. 



Across the river, in Pleasant Ridge, on the estate of Mr. Moses 



D. Townsend, we wei-e shown a ridge of good roofing slate. It is 

 precisely similar to that now quarried in Brownville. We see no 

 reason why a good quarry could not be opened here. The facili- 

 ties for drainage could not be greater, and the road to the nearest 

 railroad station is remarkably level. And possibly the Kennebec 

 river might be employed at some seasons of the year to float the 

 prepared slates to market. In the south part of Caratunk the 

 slates dip south-easterly. The Jiorth-west boundary of the clay 

 slate formation must be in the south part of the Forks Plantation, 

 or the "north part of Caratunk. Then we find the slates with in- 

 terstratified calcareous layers, belonging perhaps to an Upper Silu- 

 rian series. The Moscow slates contain the same fossils as those 

 found at Waterville. 



Waterville Fossils. In the Preliminary Report, upon pages 231 

 and 232, a list is given of all the curious fossil forms which have 

 been found and described from the slates in the Kennebec river at 



