1887.] iUl [Stevenson. 



Returning to "Wytlieville and taking the macadamized road leading 

 thence to Newbern, one rides on the lower limestones of the Knox group 

 until he crosses Reed creek, where the Knox shales are shown, still dip- 

 ping sharply toward the west-north-west. The first good exposure beyond 

 the creek is at the roadside near Kent's mill, where the limestones are 

 shown with vertical dip, so that the axis of the anticlinal must pass at but 

 a little way from the creek. The dip gradually decreases and within half 

 a mile the massive limestones are dipping at from twenty to twenty-five 

 degrees almost south-east. These limestones belong to the upper part 

 of the Knox. 



Haifa mile further east, there being no exposures in the interval, Knox 

 red shales were seen with almost vertical eastward dip. An exposure of 

 sandy limestone, also with nearly vertical dip, was seen on the northerly 

 side of the road at a little way further east, but thence the exposures are 

 poor for several miles. The dip is reversed again near the Max Meadows 

 road. 



Where the road leaves Reed creek, at nine or ten miles from Wythe- 

 ville, there is a close anticlinal whose formation was connected with severe 

 disturbance, for the rocks are much crushed and there seem to be some 

 petty faultings. The road turning southward soon rises to near the sum- 

 mit of the Lick Mountain anticlinal and follows it for a number of miles. 

 The rock exposed for a long distance is the same limestone with veins and 

 pockets of wJiite spar, which is so well shown in the railroad cuts east 

 from Max Meadows. It is associated with yellowish shales which are 

 especially well shown in the cuts beyond the Pulaski road. 



The chert ridge is double in the synclinal between the Lick Mountain 

 anticlinal and Draper's mountain, and it forms an imposing knob near 

 Reed creek, while one side of it forms a low persistent ridge between the 

 pike and Draper's valley, terminating in a double knob at the eastern end 

 of the mountain. Tliis ridge is notched by many little streams which rise 

 in the valley and unite to form larger streams only after passing through 

 the ridge. 



The Pulaski road leaves the pike at about twenty miles from Wythe- 

 ville and crosses Draper's mountain. As it passes through the ridge of 

 Draper's valley it shows the Knox limestones with easterly dip. The 

 limestones end at a little way east from Mr. J. S. Draper's house, which 

 is on the Knox shales. There the road begins to ascend the mountain and 

 within a short distance sandy shales or shaly sandstone of the Potsdam is 

 imperfectly exposed at the roadside. The next exposure, beginning at 

 somewhat more than half a mile from Mr. Draper's house, is continuous 

 to beyond the summit. This shows Potsdam sandstone dipping south- 

 eastward at from thirty-five to fifty-five degrees, the average being not far 

 from forty-five degrees. No fossils were observed in this sandstone, but 

 the rock bears close resemblance to the Potsdam of Lick mountain as much 

 in the intercalated brown or reddish-brown shaly beds as in the sandstone 

 itself. There is nothing on either side of the mountain to answer to Hud- 



