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S. Liverpool township. 



Liverpool township occupies the northeastern corner of 

 Perry county, and contains about 24 square miles of area. 

 It is less mountainous than its neighboring township, hav- 

 ing only one range (Buffalo) that deserves the name mount- 

 ain. It has for the most part a rolling surface diversified 

 with a few steeper ridges crowned with wood in some places. 

 The eastern end of Wild Cat valley makes up the greater 

 part of the township drained by Barger's run, whose head- 

 waters lie on the water-shed, parting it from the basins of 

 Cocalamus creek, AVild Cat creek, and Hunter's run. The 

 point of Pfoutz's valley enters from Greenwood and forms 

 the northern part of the township, but owing to the softness 

 of the Hamilton sandstone, as noticed under that head, 

 these two valleys are less distinctly marked off from each 

 other in this township than in Greenwood. 



The Susquehanna river forms the eastern boundary of 

 Liverpool township. It is more than half a mile in breadth 

 and studded with numerous islands, all of which form part 

 of Dauphin county ; the line running along low water-mark 

 on the west bank of the Susquehanna. 



In the succession of rocks in Liverpool township a gap is 

 occasioned by the absence of the Oriskany sandstone which 

 makes no appearance anywhere within its limits. Either 

 its beds are so soft as to crumble down and leave no mark 

 on the surface, or, as is more probable, they are very thin 

 or absent. 



The exceptionally fine scenery of the Susquehanna river 

 near Liverpool, so instructive to the geologist, is caused by 

 the passage of the river through the two mountain out- 

 crops of Pocono sandstone, leaving four projecting head 

 lands, one pair near and the other distant, gradually narrow- 

 ing the landscape southward and yielding a most beautiful 

 perspective view down the river. At sunrise or sunset noth- 

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