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passed we see they kept pushing- to the west until they 

 have obtained the position they now occupy. Dutchman's 

 Creek has cut throug-h and branched in the syncline and 

 now drains the whole of it. West Fork of the Catawba 

 which was orig-inally in the syncline has cut through the 

 western border and now drains a larg-e area northwest 

 of the syncline; thus in time the rivers have chang-ed 

 their positions and have so g-reatly eroded the syncline 

 that we only find traces of it left, ^uch as Anderson and 

 King-'s Mountain on the west, and on the east not even 

 so much, however we can trace its borders between-Dutch- 

 man's Creek and Catawba. 



The Deep River syncline headed in Chesterfield county 

 South Carolina, and ran northeast to Virginia where it 

 joined the Dan River syncline. We can see its position 

 by turning- to the general drainage Map of North Caro- 

 lina after the Permian uplift, (Map I). Its eastern bor- 

 der still makes the fall line in our rivers, but its western 

 borders were not so well marked, and did not have so 

 definite a boundary. In fact the eastern border was a 

 wide spread of country gradually sloping into it. The 

 eastern border may be seen by drawing a line from 

 Cheraw, South Carolina, northeast passing about ten 

 miles east of Raleigh and striking the Virginia line where 

 Dan river enters North Carolina. Along this line is 

 an outcrop of a number of the older, rocks, principally 

 granite. (Hand Book of North Carolina, 1886.) And a 

 little west of this is the old Deep River bed. The river 

 headed in South Carolina with Brown's Creek and ran 

 northeast to the Pee Dee River which formed a part of 

 its bed, up what is now Little river, across to Wolf's 

 Creek, down this to Deep river and down Deep river to 

 Haw river where it turned up w^hat now is New Hope 

 river and across to Stone Creek, down this and up Knopf 

 of Reed's Creek across to Tar river, up this, and to Fox 

 Creek, over to Grassy Creek and down to the Dan river. 

 At this time the coast line was only a few miles east of 



