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conglomerates, and that subsequent flexure of both the horn- 
blende and the abutting conglomerates brought them into their 
present relations. In the general section referred to, a synclinal 
and an anticlinal axis were supposed to exist in the chloritic . 
argillytes between the line of West Island and Sachuest Neck, 
on account of the southeasterly dip of the nearest outcrops of 
these rocks farther north at Brown’s and Church’s Points on 
the Little Compton shore, also because of the W.N.W. dip of 
the beds at Sachuest Neck. Another synclinal was supposed to 
occur just east of Taggart’s Ferry, and another west of it. 
Then come the ruptured anticlinal, the faulted hornblende, 
chlorite and mica schists, and the elevated synclinal of “ Para- 
dise ;” still farther west is the anticlinal of Easton’s Point fol- 
lowed by a gentle undulation, now eroded, along Haston’s 
each. 
The beds were arranged in the following chronological order: — 
‘01. Granite and protogine; 1. Hornblende, chlorite and mica 
schist series, 950 feet; 2. Chloritic argillytes and micaceous 
argillytes, both with minute passages of calcite, 500-750 feet; _ 
4. Quartz and clay aggregate, 750 feet; 5. Argillaceous schists 
of Easton’s Point, 600 feet; 6. Quartzyte conglomerate with & 
few layers of argillyte (Conglomerate II), 750 feet; 7 and 8 
Carbonaceous schists with some conglomerate, associate with — 
argillaceous schists, 1000 feet. (These last are followed by oF 
form part of the Coal-measures proper). ‘Total, 495 Be 
feet. The strata, especially those of Conglomerate I, were — 
found to be fissured more or less vertically and at right angles — 
to the axes of the folds, indicating possibly another system a 
uplifts with axes running W.N.W.-E.S.E,, but less powerful 10 
their effects as would be the case if the strata had been prevr — 
ously corrugated in the opposite direction or had already be, _ 
come rigid by metamorphism. The cleavage of the pebbles of : 
cession of vertical breaks. II, Contraction theory: the 
having been heated and beginning to cool at its extre 
would be fissured towards the middle by the resulting com 
tion. oe. 
This second paper covers the southwestern part of the ee 
or Newport Neck and the tract between Easton’s Beach, 40% 
trace. 
