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In the vicinity of White's Mills, a great many successive 

 beds of greenish gray sandstones crop out in bold cliffs from 

 the bed of the Lackawaxen far up to the summits of the 

 hills ; and at 1240' A. T., f m. east from the village, we come 

 to the base of a massive conglomerate very full of large an- 

 gular yellowish white quartz pebbles. There is some doubt 

 about the exact place which this stratum occupies, but the 

 probabilities are in favor of its representing the Honesdale 

 Lower sandstone horizon, since about 65' above it we get 

 up to another grayish white pebbly sandstone, at about the 

 same elevation above tide with the Honesdale Upper sand- 

 stone one mile and a half northward in the southern edge 

 of Berlin. 



These two pebbly sandstones are seen at several localities 

 along the ridge road running parallel with Lackawaxen 

 creek and one mile east from it. 



Wallenpaupack creek, or as it is generally called "Pan- 

 pack," enters the Lackawaxen from the south just below 

 Hawley, passing over the massive sandstones of the Catskill 

 in a series of cascades known as Paupack Falls, thus expos- 

 ing a beautiful section of the rocks. 



From Wilsonville, at the head of the rapids, to the Lacka- 

 waxen at the mouth of Paupack, is only a little more than 

 a mile, and yet in this distance the stream descends 250', 

 the greater part of which is in the lower half of its course. 



In descending the Paupack from Wilsonville, the follow- 

 ing section was obtained: (Fig. 57.) 



Paupack Falls section. 



1. Sandstone, massive, (top 1125' A. T.,) 10' 



2. Shales reddish, sandy, 20' 



3. Sandstone, pebbly, grayish white, 25' 



4. Concealed, . 30' 



5. Sandstone, greenish gray, Paupack, 20' 



6. Sandstone, reddish, shaly, . . 35' 



7. Sandstone, massive, (top of first large cascade,) 10' 



8. Sandstone, shaly, . . 15' 



9. Shales, red and variegated, 20' 



10. Sandstone, massive, gray, (top of second cascade,) . . . 50' 



11. Shales, dark, 15' 



12. Sandstone flaggy to foot of third cascade, (875' A. T.,) 35' 



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