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ore bed. Some attempts hnve been made lately to prove the 

 ore, bur without success. Nevertheless there is no question 

 of its existence, especially on the land of Mr. W. (Tailing. 

 Fun her search can alone determine if it is thick or thin, 

 good or worthless. Indications, however, on the surface 

 are against its proving valuable. The ridge of sandstone 

 and ore is cutoff about a mile further, the limestones taking 

 their place near the house of Mr. John Power. 



The other two sandstone ridges shown in the plan need a 

 little notice. Both are synclines. The more northern be- 

 gins about a mile northeast of New Bloomfield, and con- 

 tinues in a straight line for more than two miles westward, 

 where it is cut out by erosion. The other is the end of the 

 long ridge lying for the most part in Oliver and Miller 

 townships, where it holds the iron bed and yields ore in 

 great quantities. It begins just behind the school-house 

 near Mr. O. Rice's house, and may be easily traced east- 

 ward to the Newport and New Bloomfield road which it 

 crosses at the highest point between the two towns, the 

 ridge here forming the watershed. Thence it continues 

 through the wood for about half a mile, when it becomes 

 double. At the place where the ridge becomes double a 

 small displacement is visible which throws the eastern por- 

 tion of the ridge about 100 feet to the south of the western 

 parr. This doubling is caused by the widening of the syn- 

 cline so that the two walls come to the surface separately. 

 Here also the dip of the north ridge is to the south, and 

 that of the south ridge to the north indicating a change, for 

 along all the western part of the ridges already described 

 the whole parallel series dips to the north. A little further 

 east the dip of the whole series is to the south. 



It should be mentioned here that as soon as the ridge be- 

 comes double the Marcellus ore appears, showing its char- 

 acteristic thin basal bed of fossil ore. (See Plate XVI. 

 page 176, Fig. 2.) 



Continuing about a quarter of a mile farther eastward 

 the north ridge becomes very bold, rising at least 50 feet 

 above the south ridge and presently shows a magnificent 

 sheet of sandstone dipping 65° S. 10° E. It is the finest ex- 



