6o GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW JERSEY. 



the mountain. The best timber is along the eastern slope, 

 although this is all second growth ; but the present growth is 

 from 30 to 40 years, 8 to 10 inches in diameter, and 40 to 45 

 feet high. It is mainly oak and chestnut and scattering pine 

 and hemlock. 



Green Pond and Copperas mountains are mainly covered with 

 a *4<>years' growth of oak and chestnut, rather sparse and poor 

 on the top and eastern face, where the soil is thin, but fairly 

 good on the western slopes, being there generally from 8 to 12 

 inches in diameter and 35 to 45 feet high. As on Bearfort 

 mountain, there is a sprinkling of common pine. Some lots, 

 aggregating perhaps 150 acres, have been cut off within from 10 

 to 15 years, but the remainder, if recently cut at all, has been 

 only thinned out. 



The west slope of Green Pond mountain has deciduous and 

 coniferous trees in nearly equal number, consisting mainly 

 of oak and chestnut from 4 to 10 inches in diameter and 30 

 feet high, or spruce and hemlock 6 to 12 inches in diameter and 

 50 feet high. The east side of the mountain has timber of 

 the same general character, while the flat top has a scattering 

 growth of common pines, interspersed with scrub-oak (Q. ilici- 

 folid). It is noticeable that the coniferous growth disappears 

 on this mountain, south of the highway from Middle Forge 

 to Berkshire valley, and the deciduous growth runs from 4 to 

 14 inches in diameter and 20 to 45 feet high, deteriorating 

 southwest, and ending in brush and scrub oak in the district 

 north of Kenvil. Scrub oak prevails over the entire Bearfort 

 and Green Pond mountain district, especially on the top of these 

 ridges and on the sands which accompany this formation west of 

 Clinton and on Succasunny plains. 



The valley at Milton and Oak Ridge contains most of the 

 cultivated land of this region, but about one-third of its area is 

 in timber, mainly oak and chestnut, of all ages, from 15 to 60 

 years, with a little pine along the road south of Clinton, and 

 some maple and other soft woods in the low grounds. It is 

 noticeable that all the principal slopes about this valley, and 

 generally on the upper Pequannock water-shed, are well timbered. 

 The valley has a considerable number of scattered trees over its 

 cultivated portion, mostly from 8 to 12 inches in diameter and 



