40 G 5 . REPORT OF PROGRESS. I. C. WHITE. 



These two dips make the trough of the synclinal. But 

 the trough rises and comes to a pointed end, and the two 

 dips flatten to almost a horizontal, on the top of the Moosic 

 mountain, where it joins the Lackawanna mountain and forms 

 with it a sort of elevated table land in Clinton and Mount 

 Pleasant townships of Wayne County. 



This table land sweeps around the east and southeast 

 border of the coal basin through Canaan, South Canaan, and 

 Salem townships, and makes the high table land (in Lacka- 

 wanna county,) drained by the eastern waters of the Lehigh 

 river, the great Beech Woods country, formerly called the 

 Shades of Death. Its southeast edge is the escarpment of 

 the Pocono montain in Pike and Monroe county. Its rocks 

 are almost horizontal, but have a very gentle slope from the 

 Pocono escarpment northwestward towards Wilkesbarre 

 and Scranton. 



But the slope throughout Wayne County as a whole is 

 southward; and this accounts for the great water- tree of 

 the Lackawaxen creek from Belmont lake in Preston, past 

 Honesdale, southward to the Paupack Falls, at the extreme 

 southern corner of Wayne county. 



The slope of the rocks however is so nearly horizontal that 

 it may be estimated throughout Wayne county, north of 

 Honesdale, at from 20' to 30' per mile. South of Honesdale 

 the rocks seem to be absolutely horizontal. Occasionally 

 there is an appearance even of a slight southward rise. 



No well defined general roils, anticlinal or synclinal, can 

 be followed across Wayne county anywhere. Local rolls, 

 and reversed dips exist, but they are so slight and insig- 

 nificant that they cannot be laid down on a geological map. 



The whole of Wayne county may therefore be looked 

 upon as an almost horizontal inclined plane, of Catskill 

 measures, down which flow the Delaware and the numerous 

 branches of the Laxawaxen creek, southward, into Pike 

 county. 



On the western edge of this nearly horizontal Catskill 

 outspread of Wayne county a slight synclinal trough de- 

 velops itself in Preston and Mt. Pleasant counties, in which 

 patches and ridges of Pocono Sandstone have been pre- 



