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At Mount Pleasant village is an outlying patch of this for- 

 mation, about half an acre in extent. Here its pebbles are 

 quite large. 



Prospect Rock, is a broad table of it ; and its long lines 

 of cliffs look out from the east and west sides of the South 

 Knob of the Elk mountains. 



In Ararat Peak it is very conglomeritic, and the peoj:>lf\ 

 mistaking it for the Bottom conglomerate of XII, believe 

 that coal beds exist in the 300' to 400' of measures which 

 form the cone of the mountain over it ; which of course is 

 a mistake. 



In Sugar Loaf peak it outcrops again. 



Along Moosic mountain slope, facing east, in Wayne 

 county, its outcrop can be traced from Mt. Pleasant south- 

 ward to the Lackawanna county line ; and in that direction 

 the rock seems to become a coarser conglomerate. 



Chapter YII. 



Catsk ill formation, No. IX. 



If the transition strata described in the last chapter be 

 placed in this formation they will increase to 1905' the 1530' 

 of the following general section, Fig. 8 : 



1. Mt. Pleasant red shale, 150' 



2. Elk mountain shales and sandstones, 150' 



3. 'i ( Conglomerate, 20') 



4. | (Gray shales, 20' I 



5. '} Cherry ridge. I Sandstone, . . . 15' } 170' 



6. I Limestone, 5' ! 



7. ) { Bed shale, 110' ) 



8. -s r Upper, white, 25' \ 



9. > Honesdale Sandstone, < Middle, red, 40' > 90' 



10. J ' Lower, gray, 25' ' 



11. Montrose red shale, 180' 



12. Paupack sandstone, 25' 



13. Paupack shales, red and green, and sandstone, .... 200' 



14. 1 ( Sandstone, upper, 40') 



15. I „ __.._ , J - middle, 300' I 



16. >^wMzlford,i „ ^^ , v 460' 



17. ) (^ Red and olive shales, 100' ) 



18. Starrucca gray and olive shales with thin sandstone, . 105' 



Total thickness of undoubted Catskill, 1530' 



