OTRODUCTION. 



The following Report, on the Geology of the County of 

 Cape May, is made under the authority of an Act of the 

 Legislature of the State of New Jersey, passed March 2, 

 1854, entitled "An Act to cause a Geological Survey." 

 The act requires, " That when the survey of a county 

 shall have been completed, ^t shall be the duty of the 

 Governor to require the same to be published." 



In presenting this Report I feel some degree of hesi- 

 tation ; for the general survey of the State is yet incom- 

 plete, and I cannot flatter myself that all my conclusions 

 will remain without modification, when a more extended 

 series of facts is brought together; or that my views are 

 so comprehensive as not to be extended with longer time 

 and further observations. 



The survey was partly made in the summer of 1855, 

 and was finished in that of 1856. 



In the geology of the county there is but little variety ; 

 its formations are all of the most recent period. A gra- 

 dual subsidence of the land, and the changes attending it, 



