in the vicinity of Great Barrington, Mass. 265 
map i 
a eastward), although the eastward dip of the beds of 
mountain is only 15° to 25°—the strike being N. 15° W. 
“ed - the soldering together of the layers in consequence © 
a ateral pressure attending metamorphism. e evidence 
a es at least that there exists here either a fault or a very 
e aM synclinal. 
e limestone at this outcrop is the Stockbridge stratum ; it 
G ; Sag the way to Stockbridge and 
oossenh and it is consequently the same stratum that is seen 
ing under Monument Mountain at its west end near 
ig in a: of many of the hard layers in the soft quartzite 
voLadtonge , owing to the former presence of disseminated car- 
ee of lime; and the ready disintegration of the other layers 
y be due to the same fact. Yet the soft quartzite crumbles 
The thin-bedded 
4. Observations outside of the Great Barrington Region. 
a. Mt. Washington and Western Sheffield. 
u, situated in South- 
e in New 
e 
astern Massachusetts, with its western side in Ne York and 
i i 000 feet in elevation 
Se it projects to the eastward, and is almost wholly within 
ae Hv e of Massachusetts, Mount Everett, the highest point, 
hon; feet high, according to the Massachusetts triangula- 
Shetfield on the eastern border. It has the limestone plains of 
: ld on the east, and those of Egremont on the north. 
