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bit-. Paupack, in Wayne county. 



This lies west from Palmyra, and is separated from Pike 

 county on the south by Paupack creek. A great contrast 

 exists between the Paupack creek of this township and the 

 same stream along the border of Palmyra. There it de- 

 scends in a regular cataract ; here its fall is so gentle as to be 

 scarcely perceptible ; from Wilsonville where it leaves this 

 township to the western line of the same, a distance of 10 

 miles by the stream, the fall is only 2' per mile. A small 

 steamboat used to run regularly between Wilsonville and the 

 Ledgeville tannery 12 miles above. 



The reason of this gentle flow is to be seen in the nature 

 of the material through which the stream has been com- 

 pelled to cut its channel ; for a vast bed of Drift occupies 

 all the valley, and the stream does not cut through it until 

 we come to Wilsonville. 



The rocks of the township belong entirely to the CatsMll 

 series, and the highest strata possibly extend up to the 

 Cherry Ridge group. 



Near the cross roads at L. Kimble' s a greenish-gray peb- 

 bly sandstone lies at 1465' A. T., and immediately below it a 

 bed of dull red shale ; these may possibly represent a por- 

 tion of the Cherry Ridge group, the upper probably being 

 the Cherry Ridge conglomerate, since about 40' below it we 

 see another coarse pebbly sandstone. 



Where the road crosses the run near Mr. W. Ansley's the 

 base of a massive grayish white sandstone is seen at 1375' 

 A. T. 



Just west from Hemlock Hollow P. 0. we see a very mas- 

 sive ledge of sandstone at 1375' A. T. and on above this we 

 come to the base of a grayish-white pebbly bed of sandstone 

 at 1425'. 



Near Station No. 15 on the Pennsylvania Coal Co.'s R.R. 

 the outcrop of a massive sandstone occurs at 1225' A. T. and 

 at 1315' a very pebbly stratum comes in with considerable 

 calcareous breccia near its base. 



Near the summit of the plane at Station 16, a massive, 

 pebbly, grayish- white sandstone, 20' thick, is seen at 1400' ; 

 50' above is another stratum somewhat thicker and more 



