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minds the passing geologist of Goldsmith's lines in the 

 "Traveler"— 



" Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled, 

 And still where many a garden flower grows wild," <fec. 



Nature has almost regained her supremacy, and is fast 

 restoring to the spot that beauty which the smoking furnace 

 destroyed, and is reclothing with wood the hillsides which 

 were stripped to supply charcoal. 



A projecting point in the southwest includes a part of 

 Shermans creek. Delville mill, with the few houses sur- 

 rounding it, is the only hamlet in the township since the 

 decay of Montebello. At this part of its course Sherman's 

 creek is deflected to the northward by striking the hard 

 beds near the top of the Catskill group. After flowing 

 north for a mile it meets the almost equally hard beds near 

 the base of the group, and is again deflected southward. 

 Exactly similar changes are produced in the Buffalo, in 

 Juniata township, by striking on the same beds of rock. 



The Hamilton lower shale, (VIII.) 



These shales make a larger show in this township than 

 anywhere else in the east of the county, passing along the 

 north foot of Dick's hill in Centre township, where they 

 are brought up by the fault, and have been cut away by the 

 Little Juniata. They curve around the western end of the 

 hill and crop out along the Duncannon road. They reenter 

 the anticlinal fold forming the Bridge, and here occupy a 

 large extent of ground. Crossing the road they leave the 

 township and pass down into Sandy Hollow in Carroll town- 

 ship. 



The fields at the west end of the hill show the peculiar 

 whitish cast that characterizes these shales, and the land is 

 of the same quality as they usually afford — rather poor. 



The Hamilton sandstone, (VIII.) 



This sandstone, forming the crest of Dick's hill, is thrown 

 up by the fault which ranges along the northern foot of the 

 hill. * The dip of its bed varies from 90° to 30°, often in a 





