Geology and Mineralogy. 

 7. Report of the State Geologist of New Jersey 



3ook, for 1876. 56 pp. 8vo.— This report sta 



tes that 



igulation of the State by the Coast Survev lias bei 





uiiii the vear. A large part of the report is o( 





relating to the subject of water supplv, e>peciallv 





Jersey City, from the Passaic River water-sheti 



.. Analj 



that sixty per cent of the r: 

 of Goderich, Canada. — V 



Way, gravel, and bowlders, 



Rock salt; fourth 

 Marl and dolomite 



anhydrite, 



From the above section it will l>e seen that from the top of the 

 marls, which began at 876 feet, we have 641 feet of salt-bearing 

 strata, including Il>6 feet of soii,l r..«-k -air. and that the base of 

 t'»e series, that is to say the maijnesian limestone of the Guelph 



represented as fonn'me- six beds, but the second and third, and 

 also the fourth and tii't 1. mi-h; i-aHi Ik- locked upon as forming 

 bat a single bed m feet of rock. The whole 





