arrangement of superficial earthy material. 347 
a mass of earth with fragments of rock, mostly quartz, of vari- 
ous sizes, in a nearly homogeneous accumulation, with scarcely 
a discernible arrangement. Figure 2 represents a similar de- 
posit of much less depth, in a railroad cut at Cary, near Ra- 
leigh; and figure 8, one near Rockingham, in Richmond 
County, the last two near the margin of the Quaternary depos- 
its, In figure 4, from the same locality as figure 1, we have 
an accumulation of coarser and more heterogeneous materials. 
In the three former cases, there was simply earth with small 
fragments of quartz; in the latter, besides quartz fragments 
and bowlders a yard in diameter, fragments, large and small, 
tion here shown is found near Old Fort, in the upper 
Catawba Valley. In this and in figure 6, two points are 
lustrated, viz: the partial arrangement of the materials, the 
accumulation of the larger fragments and pebbles toward the 
6. 
