GEOLOGY OF THE THIRD DISTRICT. 

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The hills around Cazenovia village are chiefly composed of the coarse shale, similar as to 

 kind and fossils with those of Lewis' quarry, etc. They are well exposed in crossing the hill 

 to the west, or on the hill-side to the southeast, and are the Cazenovia shales of Mr. Coiurad. 

 In mineral character, they constitute, as has before been said, the larger part of the whole 

 group ; they are of the kind which, when long exposed, become of a brownish color ; they 

 decompose or wear away very slowly, and are the common building material of their range. 



Chenango county. Though but little is exposed of the group in this county, there are four 

 points of interest. The first is Ladd's quarry on the canal, near Madison county line, and is 

 the continuation of the range of West Hamilton ; the quarry is rich in many of the fossils of 

 the group, being in all respects like the quarry back of the Baptist College near the top of 

 the hill. Considerable stone is here taken out, being convenient for transportation. The 

 specimen in the Collection, showing the impression and part of a bone of a fish over two 

 inches in length, and more than an inch in width, is from this quarry. 



The next point is the falls and banks of Handsome creek, north of Sherburne. The water 

 falls for sixty or more feet, and the sides of the creek expose about one hundred feet of the 

 finer kind of shale. Many fossils, which are common to the mass below the encrinal lime- 

 stone at Ludlowville, and the mass generally of the group, may be obtained at the creek. 



