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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  park 
  conglomerate 
  represents. 
  Above 
  the 
  conglomerate 
  along 
  

   the 
  path 
  up 
  High 
  peak 
  for 
  the 
  first 
  800 
  feet 
  the 
  rocks 
  are 
  mostly 
  

   covered, 
  but 
  then 
  ledges 
  of 
  coarse, 
  greenish 
  gray 
  sandstone 
  with 
  

   some 
  red 
  sandstone 
  occur 
  occasionally. 
  There 
  are 
  in 
  places 
  in- 
  

   dications 
  of 
  red 
  shales, 
  but 
  the 
  softer 
  rocks 
  are 
  pretty 
  well 
  con- 
  

   cealed. 
  Toward 
  the 
  summit 
  of 
  the 
  mountain, 
  which 
  is 
  3^60 
  feet 
  

   A. 
  T., 
  the 
  sandstone 
  is 
  coarser, 
  not 
  so 
  firmly 
  compacted 
  and 
  

   weathers 
  to 
  a 
  light 
  gray 
  color. 
  Pebbles 
  are 
  not 
  infrequent 
  

   though 
  not 
  sufficiently 
  abundant 
  to 
  make 
  a 
  conglomerate. 
  This 
  

   is 
  supposed 
  to 
  represent 
  the 
  " 
  coarse 
  gray 
  sandstone 
  " 
  of 
  Sher- 
  

   wood's 
  section, 
  which 
  he 
  gave 
  as 
  440 
  feet 
  in 
  thickness 
  forming 
  

   the 
  top 
  of 
  Bound 
  Top 
  and 
  which 
  Ashburner 
  referred 
  to 
  the 
  

   Pocono 
  formation. 
  

  

  The 
  Kaaterskill 
  creek, 
  which 
  has 
  cut 
  the 
  deep 
  chasm 
  known 
  

   as 
  the 
  Kaaterskill 
  clove, 
  receives 
  from 
  the 
  north 
  Lake 
  brook, 
  the 
  

   outlet 
  of 
  North 
  and 
  South 
  lake, 
  two 
  small 
  lakes 
  west 
  of 
  the 
  crest 
  

   of 
  the 
  mountains, 
  one 
  north 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  west- 
  of 
  the 
  Catskill 
  

   Mountain 
  house. 
  On 
  this 
  brook 
  near 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  the 
  gorge 
  a 
  

   little 
  below 
  the 
  Laurel 
  house 
  are 
  the 
  Kaaterskill 
  falls 
  which 
  were, 
  

   the 
  subject 
  of 
  Bryant's 
  beautiful 
  poem. 
  The 
  accompanying 
  

   plate 
  gives 
  a 
  fair 
  idea 
  of 
  these 
  falls 
  which 
  taken 
  together 
  are 
  

   said 
  to 
  be 
  260 
  feet 
  high. 
  On 
  the 
  main 
  creek 
  at 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  the 
  

   clove 
  is 
  another 
  high 
  cascade 
  known 
  as 
  Haines's 
  falls, 
  the 
  geolog- 
  

   ical 
  structure 
  of 
  which 
  was 
  described 
  by 
  the 
  writer 
  several 
  years 
  

   ago, 
  6 
  a 
  winter 
  view 
  of 
  which 
  was 
  given. 
  About 
  three 
  fourths 
  of 
  

   a 
  mile 
  west 
  of 
  Haines's 
  falls 
  is 
  the 
  divide 
  between 
  one 
  branch 
  of 
  

   the 
  Kaaterskill 
  creek 
  and 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  branches 
  of 
  the 
  

   Schoharie 
  river. 
  

  

  Hunter, 
  a 
  very 
  mountainous 
  township, 
  crossed 
  diagonally 
  from 
  

   the 
  southeast 
  toward 
  the 
  northwest 
  by 
  the 
  head 
  waters 
  of 
  the 
  

   Schoharie 
  river, 
  is 
  the 
  great 
  Catskill 
  resort 
  for 
  summer 
  tourists. 
  

   The 
  rocks 
  are 
  all 
  of 
  the 
  Catskill 
  formation 
  unless 
  the 
  tops 
  of 
  the 
  

   mountain 
  peaks 
  are 
  composed 
  of 
  the 
  Pocono 
  formation 
  of 
  the 
  

   Lower 
  Carboniferous 
  as 
  is 
  claimed 
  by 
  some 
  geologists. 
  They 
  

  

  a 
  Second 
  geol. 
  survey 
  Penn. 
  P. 
  p. 
  218-19. 
  

   b 
  Bull. 
  United 
  States 
  geol. 
  survey, 
  no. 
  120, 
  p. 
  66-67. 
  

  

  