PART I 



PHYSICAL AND GEOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION. 



As a district for geological investigation, the County 

 of Cape May presents but few features of interest. It 

 has no mines, no quarries, no rock formations whatever. 

 It has no hills, no bold shores ; nor any railroad or other 

 excavations by means of which its geological structure 

 can be studied. With an area of 266 square miles, it has 

 only 46 square miles of cleared upland. The rest of the 

 county is either in forest, or is salt-marsh. 



No remains of animals or of plants, of species different 

 from those now living, are known to have been found 

 within the limits of the county. 



§ In geographical position, it is the most southerly 

 county of the State. The well-known cape, which lies on 

 the north side of the outlet of Delaware Bay, is in this 

 county, and gives name to it. Its boundaries are as follows : 

 Beginning "at the mouth of a small creek on the west of 

 Stipson's Island, called West Creek; thence up the said 

 creek as high as the tide floweth ; thence in a straight line 



