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friable than the summit mass. The ravine was followed down 
through the “dismal” for a mile and a half to its junction 
with the Saluda river. The gneiss beds continued to show the 
same dip as the summit rock down the entire ravine. Here 
and there layers of hornblende slates alternated with the gneiss, 
but were always conformable. The section was continued up 
the Saluda river to the falls. The hornblende slate was also 
met with along this section, but it was always found conform- 
able with the gneiss with which it was bedded. 
he following day a trip was made on foot across from 
Cxsar's Head to Table Rock. The distance is ten miles. On 
this trip another section of Cvesar’s Head was obtained, but 
no unconformability could be discovered, save such as could 
be easily accounted for by local disturbance. Table Rock was 
‘pproached from the N.E., and the ascent was made up 
the wooded slopes to the base of the enormous mass that forms 
the Table. No good exposure of the strata could be obtained 
on the ascent, as it was made upa “ridge.” When the base of 
the Table was reached the mass was seen to disappear beneath 
the soil without change of bedding or dip. The dip was the 
Same as the mass at Cesar’s Head, N. E. about 15°, and the 
tock identical in nature, a quartzitic gneiss. The base of the 
tock was examined along its northern flank, as along this face 
the mass is exposed to a lower level than on any other side. 
Upon this northern flank there is a precipitous exposure of the 
Table for nearly a mile, with an almost vertical precipice of 
of Superimposed beds of the gneiss. 
the base of as ; 
Slates is included among the beds of gneiss. This layer is 
about eight feet thick and so contorted as to be in some places 
uda range and in the section of Ceesar’s Head. Near the mid- 
dle point of the northern exposure of the Table Rock, where 
