INTKODUCTION— OUTLINE OF GENERAL RESULTS 



The fieldwork for the accompanying report was performed in 

 the summer of 1898. The observations on Johnsburg are the 

 work of Mr Newland; those on the townships in Hamilton county 

 were chiefly gathered by Mr Newland, who was assisted for a time 

 by Mr Hill ; the data in Fort Ann, Washington co., were collected 

 -chiefly by Mr Hill. Prof. Kemp has been over some of the areas 

 independently and has prepared the report and maps. The 

 present report extends to the westward and southward the obser- 

 vations of the previous season. 1 The points of special interest 

 -are the outlying areas of anorthosite in Johnsburg; the outlier 

 of paleozoic strata in Wells, which is here quite fully discussed; 

 and the increasing certainty of the existence of sedimentary 

 gneisses in Fort Ann and Johnsburg townships. 



A general discussion of the provisional scheme of classification 

 adopted will be found in our previous report, just cited. 



LOCAL GEOLOGY BY COUNTIES AND TOWNS 



Hamilton county 



Benson 



Topography and geology. Benson is a mountainous and very 

 sparsely settled township in the southern part of the county and 

 lying just west of Hope. The two villages of Benson and Benson 

 Center are situated near the southern line, but north of these 

 there are almost no roads, and the country is quite inaccessible. 

 It forms the hight of land between the headwaters of West Stony 

 creek on the south and the west branch of the Sacandaga river 

 on the west, north and east. The latter rises in Silver lake, flows 

 south, then west, then north beyond the limits of our map, then 

 east through Wells township, and finally south through Hope. 

 Our explorations have been limited to the southern part of the 



iKemp, J. F. & Newland, D. H. 17tb an. rep't N. Y. state geologist. 1897. 

 p. 499-553. 



