J. B. Elliott—Age of the Southern Appalachians. 285 
These dips do not change until the marble beds of the Knox 
dolomite, mentioned by Professor Bradley, are reached at 
Murphy, N.C. Professor Bradley's description of these beds 
Were verified in every particular. Upon the return trip down 
: . . . ‘ 
the Hiwassee S.E. dips continued until Davidson’s was reached 
_ hear Grape-vine Creek. Here the anticlinal is crossed which 
was crossed on the other route at Rice’s, east of Ducktown. It 
occurs, as Professor Bradley states, in hydromica schists and 
gneisses, just as it was found to occur at Rice’s. From this 
point N.W. dips set in and continue to Hammonds (abreast of, 
but N.E. of Hennegars), where a synclinal is i bringing 
ine. 
ing the marble beds of Elijay, and leads to the belief that the 
hydromica schists and the less massive and light colored 
itin the Knox. In the four lines along which these formations 
have been crossed west of the Blue Ridge, a recurrence of the 
typical Ocoee conglomerate with its dense blue black slates, as 
Szcrion II, From Greenvitte, 8. C., ro Casar’s Heap AND 
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HENDERSONVILLE, N. 
The object of this section was to verify the section of Ceesar’s 
Head and Table Rock, given by Professor Tuomey in his re- 
port upon the geology of South Carolina in 1848, p. 73. 
The following is a copy of Professor Tuomey's section : 
ey SSE 
A. Table Rock. B. Caesar’s Head. “a Hornblende Slates. 2. Gneiss. 8. Hornblende Slates. 
The importance of the unconformability reported by Pro- 
fessor Tuomey can at once be seen. the great strata of 
8heiss, forming the Head and Table Rock, are unconforma- 
