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



34,. Ml. Pleasant, in Wayne county. 



This lies immediately west from Lebanon and extends to 

 the Susquehanna county line for its western boundary. The 

 Moosic Mountains extend north and south along its western 

 border and in many localities the surface is quite as wild 

 and rough as in Lebanon. 



The drainage is nearly all southward by way of the Lacka- 

 waxen, and its principal tributaries Johnson and Dyeberry 

 creeks. A small portion of the rainfall however, at the ex- 

 treme western line of the township, on the western slope of 

 the Moosic Mountains, passes westward into the Lackawanna 

 river and thence into the Susquehanna system. 



Near the sources of many of the streams are wide level 

 stretches of marsh and pond ; these have been dammed in 

 and the accumulated waters stored up for the use of the B. 

 & H. canal. 



Belmont Lake is the largest of these, and is situated at 

 the northwestern corner of the township. 



Much of the land in the western half of this area has a 

 great elevation, ranging at the summits of the hills from 

 1900' to 2000 feet A. T. while at the extreme western line 

 some peaks of the Moosic chain rise to 2100' and upwards. 



The rocks of the township belong to the Catskill series, 

 except along the elevated region of the Moosic highlands at 

 the western line of the county, where the lower portion of 

 the Carboniferous formation occupies the summits of the 

 highest peaks. 



Along the western edge of this township we see in many 

 places large blocks of a very curious conglomerate, and at 

 one locality it occurs in situ; this is on the summit near 

 the old school-house in the village of Mt. Pleasant, where 

 it covers about i acre of ground at an elevation of 2025' A. 

 T. From its occurrence here I have termed it the Mt. Pleas- 

 ant Conglomerate. The matrix is a dark coarse sand and is 

 filled with numerous angular, white and reddish quartz peb- 

 bles, usually about the size of a chestnut ; occasionally we 

 find a calcareous layer near its base, of a greenish gray 

 color, also full of quartz pebbles. This is apparently iden- 

 tical with the great cliff rock at Prospect View on Elk mount- 



