of the United States of North America. 129 



Miles. 

 Brought forward... 38 

 Succeeded by 



(c.) Shales, limestone, shales, limestone, to sandstone 

 with conglomerate and a thin bed of bituminous 

 caking coal (the accompanying shale of which con- 

 tains splendid fossil plants) in St. Patrick's hill, 

 (there in anticlinal order, adjoining the Susquehanna 



valley) IS 



Succeeded by 



(£?.) Red shale across the Susquehanna valley to Blue 

 mountain 



20 



76 



In the Clearfield section (No. 3 of the author) : 

 (a.) From the Alleghany mountain, composed as in the 

 Lycoming section and dipping west, underlaid by 

 greywacke shales, limestone, sandstone, to limestone 

 in the Nuttany valley (there in anticlinal order) ... 10 

 Succeeded by 

 (/;.) Sandstone with conglomerate, limestone, sandstone 

 and shales, limestone, conglomerate and sandstone, 

 shales, limestone, to conglomerate and sandstone 



in Juniata valley (there in synclinal order) 25 



Succeeded by 

 (c.) Limestone and shales, grit, limestone to sandstone 

 with conglomerate and a thin bed of bituminous 

 caknig coal, adjoining Susquehanna valley, (and 



there in anticlinal order) 15 



Succeeded by 

 (</.) Red shales, sandstone, and conglomerate across the 

 Susquehanna valley to Blue mountain 16 



66 



In a third section (No. 1 of the author), still more south, 

 namely, m the county of Bedford, and also drawn originally 

 from the Alleghany bituminous range on the north-west in a 

 south-east direction, but in the portion represented, commen- 

 cmg at Tussey mountain, passing thence over a country with 

 an undulated surface to Allegripus mountain, the Raystown 

 branch of the Juniata, Hopewell ridge, and still further east 

 the dip IS throughout, from Tussey mountain to the south-east 

 at angles varying from 30^ to 80 ^ From Tussey mountain' 

 composed of red sandstone and conglomerate, dipping east, to 



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