Claypole.l t)b4 [April 6, 



Mr. Lewis desc;ri))ed the hummocks west of Bangor in Northampton 

 county ; the striated boulders ; the clay plain ; S. W. pointing strijB near 

 Bangor ; the moraine ascending and descending the slopes of the Kitta- 

 tinny mountain, west of the Delaware Water gap ; boulders, 30 feet long, 

 of fossiliferous Lower Helderberg limestone, from the outcrop in the 

 valley in Monroe county, now perched on the crest of the mountain, 1400 

 feet above tide ; boulders of well rounded Adirondack syenite from North- 

 ern New York ; the moraine ascending to the summit and stretching west- 

 ward across the Pocono plateau, 8000' A. T. wiiere it forms Long ridge, 

 twelve miles long, a mile Avide and 100 feet high ; damming Long pond ; de- 

 scending to the bed of the Lehigh river, and crossing the Hazleton coal 

 field mountains, Cunnyngham valley and Nescopec mountain and the 

 Susquehanna river above Berwick ; its curious ascent and descent of the 

 Shickshinny mountain, with a perched boulder on the crest ; the ascent of 

 the Alleghany or Great North mountain ; the course of the moraine 

 through Lycoming and Potter counties into the State of New York ; its 

 return, and its south-west course through Warren, Butler and Beaver 

 counties to the Ohio State line. 



The accompanying map was prepared to show the course of the moraine 

 with regard to the topography. 



Note on a large Fish-platefrom the Upper Chemunrj (?) beds of Northern Penn - 

 sylmnia. By E. W. Claypole. 



{Read before the American Philosophical Society, April 6, 1S83.) 



During a visit paid in the northern counties of this State in October last, 

 I met a gentleman residing in Susquehanna county, Mr. A. Carter, who 

 told me that some time previously he had ploughed up in one of his 

 fields a large stone containing very peculiar markings upon its surface. 

 Being unable to recognize it from his description, I requested him to send it 

 down to me for examination on his return home. This he did, and a 

 single glance showed an impression of a very large fish-plate in excellent 

 preservation. Except one or two marks which had been made by the 

 point of the ploughshare the cast was perfect. 



It was, however, unlike anything which I had previously seen, and no 

 material whhin my reach gave me the means of identifying it. It was ap- 

 parently a nondescript. I accordingly forwarded a rough outline and 

 description to Prof. Cope, who told me in reply that he could not at the 

 moment of writing, recall anything resembling it. 



I next sent a similar communication to Dr. Newberry, with the request 

 that he would inform me if in his collection there was any similar speci- 



