﻿GEOLOGICAL 
  SURVEY 
  OF 
  THE 
  STATE 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK. 
  

  

  (GEOLOGICAL 
  MAP.) 
  

  

  PRELIMINARY 
  REPORT 
  

  

  ON 
  THE 
  

  

  GEOLOGY 
  OF 
  ESSEX 
  COUNTY, 
  

  

  By 
  J. 
  F. 
  Kemp. 
  

  

  James 
  Hall, 
  State 
  Geologist: 
  

  

  Sir. 
  — 
  The 
  field 
  work 
  upon 
  which 
  the 
  accompanying 
  report 
  is 
  

   based 
  was 
  done 
  in 
  June 
  and 
  September, 
  1893. 
  In 
  the 
  former 
  

   month 
  the 
  writer 
  was 
  assisted 
  by 
  Messrs. 
  W. 
  D. 
  Matthew, 
  W. 
  A. 
  

   Pomeroy, 
  T. 
  Gr. 
  White 
  and 
  E. 
  Riederer. 
  The 
  expense 
  was 
  met 
  

   by 
  the 
  Geological 
  Department 
  of 
  Columbia 
  College 
  and 
  by 
  

   those 
  engaged 
  in 
  the 
  work. 
  The 
  townships 
  of 
  Ticonderoga, 
  

   Crown 
  Point, 
  Essex 
  and 
  Willsborough 
  were 
  mapped. 
  In 
  Sep- 
  

   tember 
  the 
  expense 
  was 
  met 
  by 
  the 
  State 
  and 
  the 
  work 
  was 
  done 
  

   by 
  the 
  writer 
  and 
  Messrs. 
  H. 
  Eies 
  and 
  Clarence 
  Fenner. 
  The 
  

   townships 
  of 
  Elizabethtown, 
  Lewis, 
  Chesterfield, 
  Keene, 
  North 
  

   Elba 
  and 
  St. 
  Armand 
  were 
  traversed, 
  the 
  last 
  two 
  somewhat 
  less 
  

   thoroughly 
  than 
  the 
  others. 
  A 
  disastrous 
  flood 
  during 
  the 
  

   closing 
  week 
  in 
  August 
  washed 
  out 
  nearly 
  every 
  bridge 
  in 
  the 
  

   whole 
  region, 
  made 
  the 
  remoter 
  highways 
  impassable 
  and 
  was 
  a 
  

   great 
  drawback, 
  so 
  that 
  some 
  outlying 
  corners 
  remain 
  to 
  be 
  

   reached 
  from 
  neighboring 
  and 
  as 
  yet 
  untraversed 
  towns. 
  In 
  

   connection 
  with 
  the 
  writer's 
  work 
  Prof. 
  H. 
  P. 
  Cushing, 
  of 
  Adel- 
  

   bert 
  College, 
  Cleveland, 
  volunteered 
  his 
  services 
  for 
  further 
  map- 
  

   ping, 
  and 
  his 
  results 
  in 
  Clinton 
  county 
  are 
  submitted 
  in 
  a 
  fol- 
  

  

  