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westward toward the Lackawanna river, and this I descended 

 on foot in hopes of getting some exposures of the Sub-con- 

 glomerate measures ; but everything was concealed under 

 piles of debris until the Pottsville Conglomerate came down ; 

 but then the stream descended along the dip of its layers, 

 never cutting through ; so that, with the exception of some 

 beautiful exposures of the conglomerate in long inclined 

 planes dipping 10° to 12°, nothing of interest is to be seen 

 from the head of the stream to its mouth near Forest City. 

 The western slope of the Moosic Mountains is thus formed 

 by the Pottsville, No. XII ; but at no locality in Clinton 

 are any valuable beds of coal known to exist, though it is 

 possible that in the wilderness skirting the left bank of the 

 Lackawanna at the extreme western line of this township 

 small patches of the coal mined at Forest City in Susque- 

 hanna county may exist. 



Mr. Goodrich, the historian of Wayne, and an old sur- 

 veyor, informs me that he once saw a bed of coal two to 

 three feet thick along the Griswold's Gap stream, many 

 years ago. It must have been one of the sporadic Intra 

 Conglomerate beds however, and hence of no economic im- 

 portance. 



Near the eastern line of Clinton, at the cross roads near 

 Mr. E. K. Curtis' s, the following section is seen, descend- 

 ing to the left bank of West Lacka waxen creek : (Fig. 49. ) 



Curtis' s section. 



1. Sandstone, massive, white, {Honesdale Upper,) base 1335', 25' 



2. Concealed, 70' 



3. Sandstone, reddish, 15' 



4. Concealed, 75' 



5. Sandstone, reddsih, ... 15' 



6. Concealed to level of Lacka waxen, 40' 



240' 



The Honesdale Upper sandstone contains a few pebbles ; 

 the rock weathers whitish, but on fresh fracture is seen to 

 possess a grayish brown color. 



The Honesdale Lower sandstone is concealed in the next 

 lower interval. 



