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



Cross roads at School House No. 7, . 1465' 



Level of stream at Cole's mill, 1255' 



4%. Cherry Ridge, in Wayne county. 



This township lies directly east from South Canann, and 

 is drained by the Middle Branch of Lackawaxen. 



Its rocks belong entirely to the Catskill, and the highest 

 stratum occurring in anv of its summits comes about 300' 

 above the base of the Honesdale Lower sandstone. 



It is from the village of Cherry Ridge in this area that I 

 have designated a group of rocks which have a remarkable 

 horizontal extent all over Wayne county, and even into 

 Susquehanna. 



Just west from Cherry Ridge P. O. on the land of Mr. 

 Collins the following is seen in descending from the summit 

 of the hill: (Fig. m.) 



Cherry Ridge section. 



1. Pebbly sandstone, Cherry Ridge conglomerate, 25' 



2. Concealed, 30' 



3. Sandstone, 20' 



4. Limestone, impure, brecciated, Cherry Ridge, (base 1425' 



A. T.,) ... 5' 



5. Red shale and concealed to level of stream, 100' 



200' 



This whole series I have termed the Cherry Ridge group, 

 there being a conglomerate, a sandstone, a limestone, and a 

 red shale, each of which I have proved to be quite persist- 

 ent. 



The Cherry Ridge conglomerate is darkish-gray, full of 

 angular quartz pebbles, and occasionally contains a layer 

 of calcareous breccia, quite similar to the persistent band 

 below ; it looses its j)ebbly character on going north from 

 the central line of Wayne, however, and is then merely a 

 coarse sandstone. 



The Cherry Ridge sandstone and limestone under it, 

 properly make up but one stratum since they are invariably 

 found in immediate contact, each varying in thickness at 



