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Strophodonta demissa, in bad condition and chiefly as casts. 

 Moreover, the Chen 

 many hundred feet. 



Moreover, the Chemung fauna runs down below this bed for 



. Section of Newport beds opposite the saw mill. 



About 300 yards below the bridge at Newport is a series 

 of beds of sandy clay-stones, green and yellow. Dip 

 60° N. 



In a small gully opposite the saw mill is exposed a 

 number of different beds. The uppermost shales con- 

 tain a few Lamellibranch shells. Then follow 



Yellow, soft, crumbling shales stained with bright red 

 spots and blotches of oxide of iron. 



Solid sandy clay-stones with abundant fragmentary veg- 

 etable remains extending through a considerable 

 thickness of rock. 



Reddish soft sandy shale at base. 



Space concealed, about 40 feet. 



Red sandy shales containing Spiri/era mesoco stahs, . , 200 " 



Alternating red and green flagstones containing Pro- 



ductella hirsuta, . . . 200 " 



Brown sandstones with green beds, . 100 " 



Solid green and brown claystones very sandy with shale 



partings, 50 " 



Limestone bed, argillaceous, containing casts of encri- 



nites and Strophodonta demissa, Hall, 3 " 



(Strophodonta bed.) 



The Chemung -Cat sic ill and, CatsJcill. 



These rocks form a long broad belt through the midst of 

 Howe township, as may be seen on the map. They appear 

 first a few hundred yards north of Newport bridge on the 

 two roads to Millerstown and continue to their junction two 

 miles north of the bridge. Their eastward extension forms 

 a fine open tract of rolling land of good quality mostly 

 under cultivation. 



Middle Bucks Valley ridge, a continuation, geologically 

 considered, of middle ridge in Centre township, is composed 

 in great part of the rocks of this group. This ridge ranges 

 across the township and then enters Buffalo to which the 

 greater part of it belongs. 



These Catskill rocks dip northward under the Berry 

 mountain reappearing to the north of Buffalo mountain in 

 Wild Cat Valley, Greenwood township. 

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