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the other direction they may be followed up the cliff to Mount Misery, 

 and for some miles to the north-east in County Kilkenny. 



Above the conglomerates come red sandstones often flaggy and 

 and sometimes traversed by a rude slaty cleavage. These beds all 

 dip north or north-west at low angles towards some lower ground, 

 where a few scattered quarries show beds of yellow sandstone and 

 flag with yellowish or greenish shaly or slaty partings. 



Fig 3» Section from DunJcitt House to Mount Misery, Waterford. 



Length of Section, about 2 miles. 



[ d^. G-rey crinoidal limestone in thick beds. 

 d. Carboniferous limestone, j d^. Dark-grey fossiliferous shales with flaggy lime- 



[ stones above and flaggy sandstones below. 

 Old "Rpd Sandstone /Yellow and red sandstone above, red sandstones 



^* ' \ and slates and red conglomerates below. 



b. Lower Silurian. Grrey, black, and greenish-grey slates and grits. 



On Mount Misery there is not such a good exhibition of slaty 

 cleavage in the Old Eed Sandstone as occurs in the finer sandstones 

 two miles to the west of Waterford, in the townland of Knockhouse 

 Upper. The red sandstones which lie there between the coarse con- 

 glomerates, all dipping north-west at 20°, are traversed by a clea- 

 vage which, according to Mr. Du Noyer's notes, dips north-north-west 

 at an angle of 50°, making them a rough sandy slate. 



North of the slope of Mount Misery the ground is very low and 

 flat and little rock is shown in it except on the shores of the river Suir 

 at low water, where, immediately above the topmost bed of fine- 

 grained yellow sandstone are seen beds of grey earthy and sandy 

 shale, hard but brittle, weathering to a light-brown colour, with 

 partings of clayey shale in which marine fossils are abundant. 



Mr. Salter, when he visited this locality with me, noted the occur- 

 ence of stems and other fragments of Rhodocrinus, and shells of the 

 genus Nucula (Ctenodonta) and Aviculopecten in the beds immedi- 

 ately above the yellow sandstones. Over these come light-yellowish 

 earthy friable shales, with seams of hard dark-grey calcareo-ferru- 

 ginous shale, and, above these, dark-grey shales with hard thin 

 nodular crystalline limestones all full of fossils. Above these are 

 dark-grey thin-bedded limestones, getting thicker, lighter in colour, 

 and more crystalhne as we ascend. Large quarries are opened at 

 Granny andDunkitt in these thicker crinoidal limestones; and nothing 

 but limestone, sometimes becoming suddenly magjiesian, is seen for 

 three or four miles to the north of the quarries. (See section, fig. 3.) 

 In the shales which intervene between the massive limestones and 

 the yellow sandstones which form the top of the Old Eed, 

 Mr. Salter noted the following fossils when with me on the occasion 



