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gives the lofty mountains. Jasper is twenty-two hundred feet 
above the sea, but the mountains fade out northeast of it, 
Southwest of Jasper the “divide” is continued towards the 
phyritic gneiss was found similar to that found in Section III 
on the W. & Atlantic railroad. The bed on the tlan- 
He railroad was found just between the metamorphie beds on 
the west, Supposed to be Ocoee, and the gneissoid beds and 
decomposing hornblende slates on the east, near Aeworth, sup- 
Posed to be Knox. The relative position at Talking Rock was 
the same, namely, the shales and light colored gneisses lying 
€ast toward Jasper, being Knox, while toward the west was 
€ncountered undoubted Ocoee. Over this country to the west 
the road crossed and wound in among the heavy ridges of the 
Coosawattee hills composed of Ocoee gneiss and shale. The 
a slate was encountered only upon the western slopes of 
is 
F tom the Coosawattee River (which was crossed just at the 
Junction of the Ocoee with the Knox), to Spring Place the 
Smallest 
