384 MARINE AND INLAND ALLUVION 



detached pieces of sandstone, and some of them many 

 feet in length, and of considerable thickness. None of it 

 however is stratified. Has this broken sandstone any 

 connexion with the same material at Belleville and 

 the other adjacent quarries ? Their height as found, 

 barometrically, by the gentlemen already mentioned as 

 associated with me on an expedition thither for the pur- 

 pose, in 1816, is only two hundred and eighty-one feet 

 above the tide-water. For the particulars I once more 

 refer to my letter of information to the Treasury depart- 

 ment, and to Mr. Blunt's excellent work, The North Ame- 

 rican Coast Pilot. 



Near the foundation of the Neversink Hills, is a stra- 

 tum of marine exuviae, that give to Monmouth County a 

 peculiar importance. It is a sort of calcarious powder 

 tinctured, as is supposed, with pyrifical or vitriolic mat- 

 ter, and containing the remains of several animals, 

 Among them are, 



A Belemiiite. 



A Gryphaea. 



A peculiar Oyster. 



A tooth and part of the jaw of a lizard monster, or 

 Saurian animal, resembling the famous fossil reptile of 

 Maestricht. 



There have been also discovered in the neighbouring 

 region extending to Shrewsbury and Middletown, 



A Baculite. 



A thigh bone, probably of a rhinoceros. 



A tooth of an elephant (see plate I. % 2), and in a 



