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



divide through a low glacial gap at the Summit Cut in New 

 York, five miles north from the township line. The R.R. 

 cut is about 150' in depth. The elevation of the track 1376' 

 A. T. The neighboring hills on either side rise 400' to 500' 

 higher. 



This high divide enters the township at its north-western 

 corner, and passes south-eastwardly into Preston. From 

 its eastern slope the rain-fall drains eastward into the Dela- 

 ware river, by several small streams ; while that from the 

 western slope goes off westward into the Starrucca creek and 

 the Susquehanna river. 



The rocks of this area belong entirely to the Cat skill sys- 

 tem, since none of the water ways cut down to the Chemung, 

 though at the north line of the township, on the Delaware, 

 the top of the Chemung does not lie more than 200' below 

 drainage level. 



The highest stratum of any considerable extent, occurring 

 in the section is the Honesdale Lower sandstone, which oc- 

 curs along the summit already refered to in long lines of 

 grayish white cliffs, attaining at the north line of the town- 

 ship an elevation of 1850' A. T. This I know to be the 

 Honesdale sandstone, because I have traced it continuously 

 northward from Honesdale into Scott township ; the task 

 is not difficult, for it is the first rock found in ascending 

 through the Catsklll from the Chemung, that makes any 

 approach to whiteness in color, being quite massive in ad- 

 dition. It thus becomes a conspicuous landmark in the 

 geology of Wayne county, since it can be followed by the 

 the eye from cliff to cliff and from hill to hill. At Hones- 

 dale its base has an elevation of 1225' above tide, thus mak- 

 ing a northward rise of (1850'— 1225')=625' in the 30 miles 

 between Honesdale and the north line of Scott township, or 

 at an average rate of 21 feet per mile. 



At the south line of the township near the edge of Star- 

 rucca borough the Honesdale Lower sandstone is seen mak- 

 ing a line of massive cliff outcrop around the hills ; eleva- 

 tion at base 1700' A. T. 



On the summit of the hill, one mile south from J. My- 

 rick's school-house, the outcrop of a massive grayish white 



