919 Memoir on the New or Variegated &c. 
The soil produced by this formation is peculiarly adapted 
to fruit trees, and yields excellent pasture land ; it is not so 
well adapted for winter grain ; the farmers complain that the 
seed freezes out of the ground. 
The surface of the country is waved, or undulating ; the 
hills are distinguished by their gentle slope. 
At Belleville and Newark, New-Jersey, the bones of ex- 
tinct animals have been found in this formation. 
The inclination of the strata seldom exceed 12° to 15°. 
I have not yet seen the sandstone of Connecticut river in 
situ; but from the descriptions which have been published 
in the American Journal of Science, and specimens which 1 
have seen at Boston, Massachusetts, where it is conveyed for 
architectural purposes; I am disposed to consider it as be- 
longing to the variegated sandstone. It is also superior to 
the bituminous shale, containing fossil impressions of fish.* 
In Germany, the second sandstone has the same position. 
Finally: The rocks, which I have hitherto mentioned in 
this memoir, may be classed with the second or variegated 
sandstone of Europe, on account of their mineralogical char- 
acter—the variety of their colours—their alternation with 
strata of marl—the agricultural qualities of the soil—their 
geological position—the slight inclination of the strata—by 
containing the fossil bones of animals, and mines of lead, cop- 
per, and manganese. 
Those who would wish to view the transition, or old red 
sandstone, may sce it in the mountains which bound the coal 
formation of the Lackawannock, and the valley of Wilkes- 
barre ; in the blue mountains of Pennsylvania; at the water- 
gaps of the Lehigh and Delaware; and at the gallery forming 
by the Lehigh Coal Company at the Mauch Chunk mines. 
126 Broadway, New-York. 
* According to Mr. Hitchcock, these are found only under the Sand- 
stone of the coal formation, and not under the old red Sandstone.—En. 
