On the Secondary and Tertiary Formations. 337 
lowest tertiary is wanting in this part of the country.) The 
limestone of Jones county is not far off, and such sinks as these 
are frequent over limestone beds; in Georgia they are called 
§ paeieostiiee sinker) * 
~ With my valise and adis-eage: well stored with specimens) 
ana a keg full strapped behind the saddle, I proceeded to South 
Washington, on the way to Wilmington. In this neighborhood 
I discovered again the secondary formation on the N. E. banks 
of Cape Fear river. The rock is a blue sandstone, contain- 
ing the characteristic Exogyra costata, Belemnites, Plagiostoma 
, Anomia ephippium, &c. The existence of this rock 
Intiveoin the tertiary deposits on the east and the west, seems to 
indicate an anticlinal axis here, which extending north, accounts 
for the elevation of the secondary throughout Jones county, and 
Satine ieee of country on each side occupied by the ter- 
tiary marls. Paso omer be ati — * et = gentle, 
Ye ee oes See 
bushes, my informant and his 1 
heath, spreading as far as they could see, and destitate of : sc esees 
tation, save a thick covering of moss and a few scattered bushes, 
Through this moss they travelled on with great difficulty, plung- 
ing in at every step nearly kaee deep. Procuring a pole from 
the trees on the border, te sunk it down eight feet into the mud 
without findisg” bottom: The moss and mud of these swamps 
would thus seem to be those: always’ due to peat swamps. At 
southern parts of Georgia, the islands of which were once it 
according to-an old Creek tradition, by a superior race of 
—_ whose beautiful women, called beg om of the sun,” 
a neip ou phn pew 
2 ide 
om = ‘ 
1 = : laa fees eee ak 
ili x ig 
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