Lesley.] 456 [May 3, 
of a young geologist produced by the section. It not only distorts the 
facts, but bars the way to a right understanding of the structure not 
only of this locality at Embreeville Gap, but of similar localities along 
the Unaka Mountain range.* There are no such synclinals as are there 
represented. There is nothing which in the remotest sense resembles the 
anticlinal there drawn under the letter D. hat interval is essentially 
and wholly monoclinal. 
Every student of American geology must acknowledge his great in- 
debtedness to the assiduous and judicious State Geologist of Tennessee, 
who has done so much to elucidate one of the most interesting regions 
of the United States. Among the many valuable columns of thicknesses 
which he has published, the following (in § 489) justifies the statement I 
have made relative to the amount of rock visible along the river above 
Embreeyville. It represents the Chilhowee Group, in Doe River Gap, 
Carter County. 
Top of Section :—Quartzose sandstone...............- vee. s00 LCL. 
PADOSUOMES Amc ASHAlGRG! ees oh ae Hp 
Quartzose Sandstone........ osetia y de oe eee) 
Sandstone and Sandy Shales......... Fe eee ee . 200 
Quartzose: Sarldstones . 0. a. B85 
Sandstones and Sandy Shales................... - 870 
Quartz0se;Sandstoners 330850. Lae .. 40 
Thick and thin bedded Sandstone, generally dark col- 
ored, occasionally Sandy Shales, and but little fine 
COMPLOMETALG 765.0 a Hees OE. LV 0 
Bre ore eo a Gy 
Sandstones and fine conglomerate with two Quartzose 
DAMS skal. Peelers aL Pe, 
Heavy bedded Quartzose Sandstone. ... 0700 
Sandstone notiwell seensg... 6s010c. A Ba 86 
Heavy Gray Quartzose Sandstone, with unimportant 
layeus ot ‘fre: Conglomerate). 4.2) yon 80 
Sandstones with conglomerate, dark and even bedded. . .44. 
Heavy Gray Quartzose rock, mostly sandstones with 
fine, conslomerate.7... i... 608. 2 ola omeld SU Wis 
Some of the Sandstone hard and Quartzose.... 
The lower part of my Embreeville Section consists of between one and 
two thousand feet of sandy shales, with two very massive plates of con- 
glomeratic sandstone, about twenty feet thick. Two or three thousand 
* With the highest respect for the distinguished services rendered our science by the State 
Geologist of Tennessee, [ cannot refrain from expressing regret that the weight of his stand- 
ing in the science should be thrown into the scales on the side of the slovenly and mischievous 
fashion of distorted drawing in vogue among geologists until recent years. A section is worse 
than worthless which is not well and truly drawn, It is sure to manufacture and perpetuate 
false views. 
