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of these shales, cutting it into four parts, one of which is 

 in Juniata or Oliver townships, another in Howe, a third in 

 Miller, and a fourth in Buffalo. 



The rocks here present the same rounded surface and 

 comparatively poor soil that characterize their outcrop in 

 other parts of the county. 



The Cat skill group. 



The red rocks of this group crop out in a line across the 

 township from the Susquehanna to the Juniata. But they 

 present no feature calling for special mention. They lie 

 between the south slope of Berry mountain and Middle 

 Bucks Valley ridge. 



The Pocono sandstone. 



The southern outcrop of the Pocono sandstone in Berry 

 mountain divides Buffalo township into two parts, one of 

 which consists of what we may call the Northern cove of 

 Perry count}', and the other of the wide and ridgy Bucks 

 valley. Each division includes its bounding mountain walls. 

 An account of this southern outcrop of the sandstone will 

 be sufficient, as the northern outcrop shows no difference. 

 The Pocono sandstone is here about 2000 feet thick, and its 

 solid, hard beds rise at an angle of about 65° to the south, 

 dipping northward under the red shale of the cove to rise 

 again in Buffalo mountain three miles or less further north. 

 This is the same sandstone as that of the Southern cove, 

 and like it underlies the true coal measures, but at a dis- 

 tance below them of nearly 2000 feet. It very closely re- 

 sembles the sandstone immediately underlying these meas- 

 ures, and has often been mistaken for it by miners unac- 

 quainted with geology. It also contains at least one seam 

 of coal and probably more ; sufficient to entice such men 

 into spending money and labor, but not sufficient to reward 

 them. The coal beds in the Pocono sandstone are a mere 

 will-o'-the-wisp, luring on the miners yard after yard into 

 the solid hills, and finally disappearing when just within 

 their grasp. 



Many a chapter might be written on the disappointment 



