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once filled the bed of this valley throughout its whole length as 

 far as Clinton. At the final elevation of the red shale and sand- 

 stone rocks, if, as we suppose, these strata were also uplifted, the 

 extensive dislocations to which they have obviously been sub- 

 jected, will account for the removal of a portion of the beds, ex- 

 posed as they must then have been to the full violence of the 

 floods thus set in motion. 



