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The other attempt at boring for salt was on the land of Mr. Kenyon, 
in the town of Hastings, at ^n old beaver dam. It was likewise soon 
discontinued. 
In no part of Oswego were we able to discover the mill-stone grit as 
a solid rock or mass. We had reason to believe that it had existed near 
Cleaveland, from the prodigious number of large fragments or blocks 
which are found to the east of the village, on the high bank and in the 
bank and on the shore of the lake, as well, likewise, about a half mile 
from that place to the east, on the road to Rome. What seems to give 
probability to the idea, is the occurrence of a sulphur spring at each lo- 
cality; nothing of the kind having been met with in all that part of Os- 
wego, connected either with the red or the gray sandstone. The Onei- 
da sulphur springs issue but a few rods to the south of the grit, and the 
spring near Remington's forge, not far from the village of Mohawk, in 
Herkimer, is immediately above the same rock. Another circumstance 
confirmatory of the opinion, is the progressive curving of the grit to the 
northwest from Utica, to the stone pound near Verona, the prolongation 
of which passes by the place in question. This curving to the north 
accords likewise with the outline of the lower rocks. 
In no part of Oswego that we visited, did we find or could we hear 
of the red ore of Oneida and Herkimer having been discovered. Bog 
ore occurs near the lake in two localities. It is used at the High Fur- 
nace at Rotterdam, mixed with the red ore. 
Oswego county may emphatically be said to have been the sport of 
waters. The result has been, the destruction of an immense extent of 
surfa€e rock, particularly red sandstone. The effect of the action of 
water has been the accumulation of clay, sand, gravel, and their mix- 
tures, so as to form the soil of almost the whole of the county, very lit- 
tle of the soil having been formed by the decomposition of the rock in 
place. 
Jl summary of the rocks or groups of this report ^ in their order of succes- 
sion^ beginning with the lowest 'in the ascending order ^ Sfc, 
Crneiss. — ^The lowest rock of the district, surface exceedingly uneven, 
full of elevations and depressions, as though water-worn. This fact is 
observable at all the uplifts where the rock is exposed. 
" Calciferous Sandroch^^ — Deposited long posterior to the gneiss, ma* 
ny series of rock which observation proves that elsewhere exist between 
