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cisely similar to that from which so much and such superior lime is 
burned in Newburgh. All that is required are care and experience in 
selecting and burning. This statement is necessary since the belief has 
become common, that there is little if any good limestone in the coun- 
ty, except at Newburgh, and as a consequence, the Newburgh lime has 
comparatively excluded all other from use. 
It is a common belief in the county, that the limestone from beneath 
the surface requires less fuel to reduce it to lime than that taken from 
the surface. 
As a building material, some of our limestones are not surpassed by 
any found in the State. Those of Neelytown in Hamptonburgh, and 
Mount Lookout in Goshen, are peculiarly fine. That of Mount Look- 
out is a handsome dove colour, and perfectly durable. It can readily 
be obtained of any length and thickness required. 
MILLSTONE GRIT, {of Eaton.) 
All the northwestern side of the Shawangunk mountain is composed 
of this rock. It is regularly stratified. The line of bearing being about 
north 50° east, or south 50° west. The dip to the northwest, at an an- 
gle of 30°. This rock extends, without interruption, from the New- 
Jersey line to Sullivan county, and from the base of the Shawangunk* 
mountain to the top; in some places it caps the top of the moun- 
tain, and in others the slate of the eastern side is the highest. I have 
not seen the two rocks in actual contact, although they are close to each 
other the whole length of the county. 
The structure and composition of this rock varies in different layers 
from fine grained, nearly compact, to that which is composed of pebbles 
the size of filberts. Most of the layers are very hard, some are sandy, 
and others even slaty. Its colours are w^hite, gray, grayish and reddish 
white, and brick red. 
About one-third of the distance from the bottom of the mountain is 
a belt of the red coloured rock; it is about two rods wide, the layers cor- 
responding with the layers of the other colours, and it extends quite 
across the country. In many places hard specimens could not be dis- 
tinguished from the New- Jersey sandstone. .' • 
* Shawangunli, pronounced by the Indians Shong-gum, meaning white stone, is very ap- 
propriate. People now living, have had this explanation from the lips of the Indians. 
