F. H. Bradley—wStilurian age of the Southern Appalachians. 375 
About four miles above Murphy, on Peachtree Creek, another 
outcrop of marble occurs, which appears to be the equivalent of 
that already discussed, which requires the existence of a con- 
siderable fault somewhere between the two outcrops. Iam not 
entirely certain as to the location of this fault, since the strata 
vary locally to such an extent, hereabout. I believe, however, 
that it is very close to the Peachtree outcrop. Accordingly, I 
would refer all the intervening strata to either the upper part 
of the Cincinnati group or the overlying beds of the Silurian. 
Ascending the Hiwassee, after leaving the auriferous hydromica 
schists of No. 1 of the foregoing section, which underlie most of 
the town of Murphy and extend nearly a half mile up the river, 
we find, first, a fine-grained, ferruginous micaceous, quartzytic 
sandstone ; then, a thin bed of chlorite slate; then, a thousand 
feet or more of fine-grained gray sandstones, with quartz veins; 
then, white, gray and ferruginous quartzytes, partly heavy- 
bedded, with pyritiferous quartz veins, interlaminated with sili- 
course of the Notla River. On Peachtree Creek, near LL. 
Brittain’s, the marble shows white, blue, gray and reddish- 
marble and Little Brasstown Creek. Just beyond this, another 
fault again brings up the marble, which outcrops at several 
i and near the Mission 
arm, being accompanied as usual by heavy beds of limonites. 
These limonites, both here and on Peachtree, are largely 
ochres, and are said to contain considerble amounts of silver, 
Copper and lead. Above the Mission farm, the overlying 
