'/"//// mnl lintiuiil <>f' A'"/7//r/-/i 



nnich like that of tin- I h achenl'cK. at tin- head of Belt ('reek : 

 ami thinl, a rhyolitc. on tin- >iiiiui,it of I. nil. I'.rlt Mom. 



At Neihart, the centre of the Archa-an nudru- of tin- Little 

 Belt Mountains is reached. The prevailing granite is nddi-h 

 and somewhat handed with brown and irivrii, ami though \ 

 ma.-.-ivc is imli.-tinctly bedded and apparent Is nietamorphie. It 

 is cut hy enormous dykes of a \.r. ,md mottled irranite, 



consisting of obscurely rounded masses of feldspar : h\ 



hornhlende and black mica. Thc.-c -raniie rock- are : 

 hy a irreat number of fissure-veins, generally \\itli \ 

 <|iiartx, heavy spar, and oxiik- of i nd can \IH.L' *nl- 



pbides of silver and lead : the orea an- rich but the \eins small. 



On the south side of the valley at Neihart the ditT> of L r rai 

 L200 feet in height, are covered with a >heet of pot-dam >aiid- 



stone several hundred feet in thickm-ss. the contact heini: fll 

 for miles. The sandstone is red, ^cnerallN -soft, hut soim-tim.- 

 a coarse and hard conglomerate. It here contain.- no fossils, but 

 is full of annelid borings (Sw?i//tnti), and has the aspect 

 has the geological relations of the Potsdam in the Black Hills 

 and in the Adirondacks. On the summit of the mountain. I 

 of the upper beds of sandstone are tilled with, and larircl\ com- 

 posed of, primordial trilohites. 



The evidences of former glacial action in the Belt Mountains 

 an- abundant but are not of a striking character. T: 

 sist of beds of boulder clay, and in some of the higher \ al- 

 leys. of nir/tffs mnuftuim'vs or smoothly planed -urfac. 

 ciai striae were not observed, having been obliterated b\ 

 thering. 



All the upper portion of the Belt Mount. d with a 



dense forest composed of Dou-la.-'s and Knp-lmann'- 

 .l///rx Dninjltisii. and A. En ', the bal-am tir. .1 



"A//-, and rinns runtnrtn. In J'lace>. t he 1 1 cos are heanl\ 

 draped with tufts and streamers of the jet black libiv.- 

 /////// sarmeniosa : while man\ treei and partioa] 



branches are decorated with bunchis of the lemon 



///// ruljiinn. Lower do\\ii on the mountain are -cattiTed tree* 



of /'tin/* fiinn /!/ 



The valley of Sm ' - K ' Hrlt from the 



I/it: \louniain~. I: I U ; tWN - d beauti' 



