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ore in the report on the ores of the county, and in the re- 

 port on Oliver township. 



The Hamilton sandstone, I VIII.) 



Four lines of Hamilton sandstone cross Miller township 

 from east-northeast to west-southwest. Three of them form 

 high bold rough ridges. The other is here low but rises 

 into the third summit of Half Falls mountain in Watts 

 township, immediately after crossing the Juniata. 



The Buffalo hills make the northernmost of these ridges. 

 It enters from Oliver and runs through the township in a 

 straight line to Baileysburg where it crosses the Juniata. 

 Its heavy solid beds, almost vertical, may be seen by the 

 side of the railway which runs parallel with them for half 

 a mile or more south of the station. The northern slope of 

 this range is gentle and has been cleared along part of its 

 course almost to the summit, but there are few more barren, 

 rough and forbidding hillsides in Perry county, perhaps 

 none, than the scarped and stony, steep, southern front of 

 Buffalo hills overlooking Bailey's run. Few trees can get 

 a hold upon it and the attempt to scale it is most likely to 

 start an avalanche of loose blocks. The run which has 

 here cut a deep valley out of the rocks lying between the 

 Oriskany and Hamilton sandstones has excavated a channel 

 for itself across the latter which forms a picturesque con- 

 clusion to the long valley above it. The road leading down 

 to i lie Juniata affords one of the most beautiful drives in 

 the county for rock and woodland scenery ; and the river 

 valley, though on a larger scale, is here scarcely less beau- 

 tiful, being hemmed in between the termination of Lime- 

 stone Ridge, Mahanoy ridge, and Buffalo hills on the right 

 bank and the three bold headlands of Half Falls mountain 

 on the left. The ledges of Hamilton sandstone crossing the 

 Juniata here form a rapid, the incessant murmur of which 

 adds lh« l pleasure of th<' car to that of the 4 eye Altogether 



the gap of the Juniata between Miller township on the one 

 side, and Howe, Buffalo and Watts on the other, is, perhaps, 

 the mosl beautiful piece of near scenery in Perry county. 



