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The top of the shales under the hotel is approximately 130 feet, or 

 fome 220 feet above the Schoharie river level. The gorge is 

 narrow, indicating its recent formation and has been cut from 

 rocks of Hamilton age. Some distance farther up the creek and 

 perhaps not much higher than the top of the shales in the cliff 

 at Bouck's falls is the upper end of the gorge. The rocks (X 2 ) 

 consist of shales and sandstones, some of the latter being quite 

 massive. On the northern side of the creek the exposure is some 

 25 to 30 feet in height and is labelled Blarney stone. The dip is 

 apparently heavy, being about 4° s. 30° w. Some of the shales 

 contain numerous specimens of Spirifer granulosus 

 Con. and other Hamilton fossils. On the underside of a sand- 

 stone stratum just above the creek are large numbers of the very 

 mucronate form of Spirifer m u c r o n a t u s (Con.) Bill, 

 associated with Chonetes coronatus Con. The fossils 

 and the stratigraphic position of the zone show that it is in the 

 Hamilton formation. The species listed below were collected at 

 this locality: 



1 Spirifer granulosus Con. r 



2 S. mucronatus (Con.) Bill, r 



3 Tropidoleptus carinatus (Con.) Hall it 



4 Oamarotoechia prolifica (Hall) H. & C. c 



5 Nyassa arguta Hall r 



6 Orthonota undulata Con. it 



7 Chonetes coronatus (Con.) Hall c 



Above the rocky gorge just described, well toward West Fulton, 

 Panther creek flows in a deep gorge, but the sides are covered 

 with drift, clay and boulders of all sizes so that the bed rocks are 

 concealed. At the three corners, perhaps 1-J miles below West 

 Fulton, the section leaves the valley of Panther creek and follows 

 the highway turning westerly, which ascends the steep hill that 

 rises to the south of the creek valley. The road corners, by the 

 barometer, are some 190 feet higher than the glen at X 2 and the 

 slope of the hill for over 800 feet is pretty generally covered by 

 drift. There are a few exposures along (he highway in this 800 

 feet of elevation, as for example (X 4 ) 145 feel above the corners 

 where flite, bluish, argillaceous shales and somewhat greenish 

 sandstones occur. Again, 550 feet higher, toward 1 he top of the 

 hill anc? west of the first road turning to the south, is a ledge of 

 rather coarse grained somewhal greenish gray sands! one (X 5 ) 

 which has been referred to the Sherburne formation. About 145 

 feet higher, or by the barometer some 1280 feel above the level of 

 the Schoharie river a I I Ik 1 bridge 1 below Breakabeen, are the 

 bluish, argillaceous shales of X 6 . This locality is w^ell toward the 

 summit of this part of the plateau and is to the west of the second 



