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tal stuff with included bowlders of local rock varying in 

 size from small pebbles up to fragments 5' in diameter. No 

 bowlders of metamorphic rock have been seen anywhere 

 along the Lackawaxen valley. 



The rocks of the township belong exclusively to the Cats- 

 kill series, and are finely displayed along the bluffs, and 

 steep slopes of the Lackawaxen. 



On the east bank of Lackawaxen, opposite Honesdale the 

 hill rises almost perpendicularly to a height of 300', and is 

 capped at top by a long bold cliff of massive sand rock, de- 

 scending from which the following succession appears : 

 (Fig. 51.) 



Honesdale section. 



1. Shale, red, sandy, 15' 



2. Sandstone, rnassive, Honesdale Lower, (top 1275' A. T.,) 50' 



3. Soft red shale, 3' to 5' 



4. Sandstone, gray, . . 20' 



5. Red shale with some gray sandstone, 70' 



6. ^Grayish-green sandstone, 20' 



7. Red shale, 60 



8. Paupack sandstone, 35' 



9. Concealed to level of Lackawaxen creek, 35' 



310' 



No. 2 is locally known as Irwin' s cliff ; on account of its 

 commanding view and romantic features, it is much visited 

 as a pleasure retreat. Ttris is the lowest member of a trip- 

 pie series which I have termed the Honesdale Sandstone 

 group, consisting of massive sandstones at top and bottom 

 with 40' to 50' of red sandy shale or red sandstone between, 

 the bottom of which is seen in No. 1. The Upper sandstone 

 has been eroded from the hill at this locality but is found 

 in a higher knob further east. 



The 175' of measures between the Honesdale Lower SS., 

 and Paupack SS. come according to my identifications, at 

 the same geological horizon as the great bed of red sliale 

 seen in the borough of Montrose, and which I have named 

 Montrose red sliale. The only difference is that in coming 

 south-eastward some sandstone layers are interpolated where 

 none are found at Montrose, in accordance with the general 

 law that all the deposits grow coarser toward the southeast. 



