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Lake George. D. H. Newland in 1897 traversed the country 

 from Chestertown to Warrensburg village along the main high- 

 way, and noted gneiss with occasional masses of gabbro. Mr 

 Hill in 1S99 crossed from Bolton to the Schroon valley and fol- 

 lowed south through Warrensburg village along the river. He 

 noted the usual gneiss of Caldwell but was impressed by the 

 remarkable terraces along the Schroon river. One appears on 

 each side about 20 feet above the stream and indicates an ap- 

 parent rise in the land or the cutting of some barrier that has 

 lowered the old outlet level. 



Saratoga county 



Some notes have been gathered regarding the nature of the 

 gneisses in Saratoga county, which, though fragmentary, will 

 be of interest, because they were made along the southern bor- 

 der of the pre-Cambrian areas, and, in many cases, just as the 

 ancient crystallines disappeared under paleozoics or under drift. 

 Unfortunately no topographic maps are as yet available in the 

 crystalline areas of this county, and the lack of them has been 

 a great handicap to accurate field work. 



Day 



Day is the extreme northwestern town of Saratoga county, 

 and by mistake it andHadley were mentioned in our report (1897) 

 as being in Warren county. 1 Only the eastern part of Day was 

 there taken up, and it was described as consisting of gneiss and 

 glacial drift. The same is true of the western part. Mr Hill 

 has made a trip to Mud lake in the northwest part of the 

 town, and finds only gneiss. The commonest variety consists 

 of biotite, quartz, feldspar and light pink garnets. At times 

 the garnets disappear. Dark hornblendic varieties were much 

 more rarely observed. The strike at Mud lake is north and 

 south. 



Edinburg 



Edinburg lies south of Day and is gneiss and drift except for 

 a narrow belt of Potsdam along its southwestern border. The 



l 51st an. rep't X. Y. state museum. 1S97. p. 546. 



