294 J. B. Elliott—Age of the Southern Appalachians. 
the surrounding country. The plateau traveled over from 
To the southeast the hill country of eastern Georgia lay at least 
fifteen hundred feet below the level of the plateau. 
Between Burnt Mountain Gap and Jasper the road descends. 
Sharp ridges were passed over, showing their bedded gneiss. 
The gneiss was neither so dark nor massive as the gneiss of the 
Blue Ridge monoclinal. The dips were irregular, varying as 
might be expected in a region of such disturbance. A mue 
before Jasper was reached the nature of the road changed, be- 
coming level and smooth, suggesting a change in the forma- 
tion. 
Tate’s marble quarry, two miles southeast of Jasper, was Vis- 
ited and examined. “This locality is the one mentioned by 
Professor Bradley, and is exceedingly interesting on account of 
ridge is composed of thinly bedded gneiss, dipping S.B. under 
the marble. Some layers were light colored and filled with 
feldspar crystals, such as characterize the layer found west ° 
Elijay and near Hendersonville, N. 
the gneiss of this ridge is metamorphosed Knox sand- 
stone, which seems the only possible conclusion, it gives 4 clue 
to the age of the formations with which it occurs elsewhere 
Here it immediately underlies the marble which shows some 
tremolite, as does the marble at Murphy. The marble bed 10 
the Elijay Valley is also east of the beds of the same gnels> 
found upon the western slopes descending toward Hlijay. 
From the relations of the gneiss at the Jasper marble quarry 
it would seem proper to refer the gneisses and semi-meta 
morphosed shales between Mountain Town and Elijay to the 
Kno e same assignment would be necessary for the for- 
mations between Heath’s and the Blue Ridge monoclinal. 
The trip from Jasper to Spring Place was somewhat of a re~ 
versal of the section north of it through Elijay. The only 
difference being that Jasper is at the southwestern extremity o 
the Blue Ridge, or at least of that massive monoclinal whic : 
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