RETORT OF THE DIRECTOR AND STATE GEOLOGIST 



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gneiss begins near the northeast bend of the Sacondaga river, at 

 Fish house, and extends thence, eastward and northward, across 

 the town. To the west of Batchellorsville a very light colored, 

 garnetiferous feldspathic variety was gathered, that has been 

 severely granulated and sheared, but as a rule the rock appears 

 to be the micaceous, garnetiferous variety noted under Day. 

 The garnetiferous gneiss is extensively developed in Steele moun- 

 tain to the southeast of Batchellorsville, and has been observed 

 beyond Mt Pleasant in Greenfield. It seems to be quite char- 

 acteristic of this general region, and, as will be noted later, it 

 is very abundant at the " Noses " in Montgomery county. It 

 would appear to be an altered sediment. 



Wilton and Greenfield 



A large ridge of gneiss runs along the border of these tw T o 

 towns, which embraces Mt McGregor and thence runs northward 

 in Luzerne mountain. It is hornblendic and varies in strike from 

 n 40 w to n and s. Its dip is steep, and its general character 

 is the same as has been described under Queensbury. 



Fulton county- 

 Fulton county lies west of Saratoga, south of Hamilton and 

 north of Montgomery. It is roughly rectangular in shape, with 

 its greatest dimensions extending east and west. It contains 

 the southern limits of the old crystalline rocks in this part of 

 the Adirondack area except for the small faulted outlier at the 

 " Xoses ". The edge of the crystallines runs in a southwest 

 direction across the country and follows the escarpment of the 

 " Xoses " fault, the older rocks being brought up by it against 

 the paleozoics on the east. The topographic maps thus far pre- 

 pared only touch this county along its southern border and 

 scarcely affect the gneisses. 



Bkecker 



Bleecker is a rectangular town in the center of the north- 

 ern tier of Fulton county. It lies wholly within the area of 

 gneiss and, except for the ever present glacial drift, it displays 



