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ing in general a northeast strike and a northwestern dip. One of the more 

 northern exposures, before reaching the 20-foot contom- line, indicating a 

 valley entering the hillside from the east, shows a strike of N. 60° E., dip 

 45° NW. Continuing on this road northward, and tlien following the 

 main road toward Swansea village, there are abundant exposures of the 

 conglomerate south of the road, not far beyond the mill pond. Here 

 the strike is about N. 45° E., dip 50° NW. About a thixxl of a mile east- 

 ward, at some distance south of the road, the strike is about N. 50° E., 

 the dip northwest. The northwesterly dip is shown by the conglomerate 

 exposures at various points north of Swansea ^dllage. The northeastern 

 strike and northwestern dip is also shown by the conglomerate exposures 

 which, beginning on the western side of the pond southwest of the village, 

 reappear on the eastern side, and are exposed again before reaching the 

 main street of the village. Following the road east from Swansea "village, 

 and taking the first road toward the north, exposures are found again three 

 quarters of a mile northward, bordering the road on the west. The same 

 strikes and dips can still be recognized, continuing thence northeastward to 

 Taunton River. 



The general northeast strikes and northwest dips from the first exposure 

 here described, northeast of Coles Station, along Coles River, through 

 Swansea village, show conclusively that these coarse conglomerates overlie 

 the sandstones and shales faii^her south and east. 



West of the exposures just described, from Coles Station as far as the 

 mill pond, halfway between Luthers Corner and Swansea, the conglomer- 

 ates dip toward the east, showing a synclinal structure over this area. The 

 easterly and northeasterly dips along the railroad, half a mile west of Coles 

 Station, have already been mentioned. A little west of north of Coles 

 Station, directly west of the first strong bend of the road already described, 

 conglomerate is exposed at the margin of the woods, with a strike of about 

 N. 65° W,, dip about 30° NE. The conglomerate is here overlain by 

 sandstone merging into a fine-grained shaly rock. Northeastward, in the 

 fields, the conglomerate strikes N. 15° W., and dips east. West of Luthers 

 Corner, for a rather long distance west of the road leading north from 

 Coles Station, are a considerable number of exposures, most abundant 

 north and northwest of the comer. Their strike is in general north-south, 

 dip eastward, often very low. Half a mile north of the bridge across Coles 



