64 J D. Dana—Hudson River Age of the Taconic Schists. 
The quartzyte near Matteawan (see p. 385 of last volume) is sit- 
uated directly east of this place, and extends along for half a mile. 
Gr tr i, commencing at the North.—In North 
Salisbury, Conn., 4 m. south of Massachusetts boundary, just east 
of the road nearest to the foot of the m ountain, limestone N. 
10°-12° E., dip 50°-60° W.; 1 m. to 2 wid darttiog south, N. 6°- 
12° E., dip 45°-60° W.; 4 m. east of the: first of ome loc. , dip 
50° E.; and 14m. E., N. 15°-25° E., dip 50°-55° E. ; t head of 
Wash-nee a Timestone N. 16° E,, ip 45°-55° E. ; - m. 8. 
3° E., dip 4 
ai 
of Millerton, mica schist N. 8°-22° W., dip mostly 40° E. 
In Shar ron, $ Ta. “6 of Sharon Post "Office, ‘limestone N. 20° E. 
°. 
dip E.; 2 m. to southward of Sharon, quartzyte, N. "26°-31° E., 
into granulyte, and the 28 — gneiss lying conformably 
East of Wassaic, N. Y., Riatostoid: N. 12°-22° E., dip 45°-50° E. ; 
13 m.8., limestone cs 26°-27° E., dip 55° E.; east of last, quartz. 
yte (at quar ry) N. 4° W., 40° 45° W. East of Dover Plains, 
- Im, limestone N. 10 °-20° E., dip 50°-60° E.; 4 m. farther east, 
any just east of the limestone area, quart te N.. 10°-21° E., dip 
50°-60° E.; $m. S.E., gneiss N. 10°-11° E., dip same. At South 
mica schist N. 7° dip 70°-80° E. , near 
Pawling Station, limestone N. 19° E., dip 60°-70° E m. 
= <s Ez, dip 40°-70° E.; then nearly horizon- 
tal with — westward and again eastward, and the 
revails; 2 m. W., gneissoid —. schist or micaceous gneiss oe 
WW. of a Sciaabetse ore bed) N. 2°-10° E., and varying to N. 32 
dip 50 0° E. out Towner’s id the Archean), gneiss a 
lying conformably the limestone, with wide variations in strike, 
N. 68° W. » dip 40° E., but in hill to W., N. 38° W. to N. 88° W., 
dip E., about 40°; 1m. 8, of of T., in the marshy valley, near a red 
house, ’the limestone interstratified with the gneiss, N. 32° E., dip 
60° E. heey vicinity of the Archzean accounts for the contortions)5 ; 
i. m. N. of Dykeman’s, a oe N. 17° E., dip 70°- 
quartz, usually with little of the original form. The schist “ oin- 
ing also has often its ts quartz seams or veins, 
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