214. J. D. Dana—Taconie Rocks and Stratigraphy. 
long. The schist overlies the limestone in a shallow synclinal, 
and comes nearer to being a horizontal remnant than any I have 
elsewhere seen. Limestone makes the base of the hill as rep- 
resented in fig. 8; which figure answers equally well for sec- 
tions up the hill from the southward, southeastward and east- 
d. In northeastern Salisbury stands one of the larger ridges 
of mica schist named Toms Mountain. At its very narrow 
side of Toms Mountain synclinal. The limestone in whic 
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they lie, dips beneath the schist conformably on the west side 
schist is eastward, and mostly 35° to 60°. West of Millerto? 
the ridge sends off an eastern spur, southeast in trend ; and i 
* The occurrence of staurolite crystals in the mica schist of the small area a 
the village of Sheffield was first announced by Dr. Chester Dewey, in 1824; am 
ss i 822. (See thie 
e in the Salisbury mica schist, by Prof. ©. A. inl 
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