40 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA. 
Millstone Grit, and following this, the course is first north 
by a few degrees east, along Shades Mountain,- keeping 
Shades Creek ard the L. and N. railroad in view on the left 
all along, passing the large peach orchard owned by Mr. 
Howell of Cincinnati, and leaving the John McClintock 
house to the right of the course. In the southeast of 
section 21, townshp 19, range 3 west, the course changes 
nearly due north along the base of the Millstone Grit, the 
Judge Morrow orchard and vineyard lying distance to the 
right; this course is followed up to the Hale place. Here 
Shades Mountain changes direction; and our course is 
thence northeast passing Oxmoor, with its furnaces on the 
left, in plain view at the foot of the mountain, a busy little 
iron manufacturing town. This northeast course continues 
along the Millstone Grit to the middle of section 20, town- 
ship 18, range two west; bere the rocks are found in irreg- 
ular position, the ridges more disturbed and broken, and 
the topography more out of its usual shape by reason of 
the change of dip between the Henryellen and Acton ba- 
sins. We go thence southeast along the boundary between 
this and the Henryellen basin through the middle of section 
28 ; thence through the middle of the north half of section 
34; thence through the middle of the south half of section 
35, all in township 18, range 2 west, crossing Cahaba River 
at the west side of section 35; thence to the Methodist 
church near Mr. Brage’s in "Possum Valley at the great 
boundary fault that separates the Cambrian from the Car- 
boniferous. The high cherty ridge on the southwest side of 
*Possum Valley here acquires the name of New Hope 
Mountain. Here the course is changed to the southwest, 
keeping along the fault at the edge of the Coal Field, and 
along ’Possum Valley, passing close by the Dave Lowry 
house, about half a mile from the top of New Hope Moun- 
tain ; also close by Hens. Bailey’s house, with Hale Bailey’s 
a short distance to the left; thence along the edge of the 
fault to half mile post on the north side of section 2, 
township 20, range 3 west; thence northwest to Cahaba 
River, opposite mouth of the Bailey Branch, crossing the 
Cahaba River at this point; thence up the Bailey Branch 
in a northwest direction to the half mile post on the west 
