14 
GEOLOGY OF THE FIRST DISTRICT. 
TABLE OF LOCALITIES OF PEAT AND MARL. 
Peat. 
No. of acres. 
County. 
Locality, and miscellaneous remarks. 
Peat, 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
Marl, 
M 
M 
M 
M 
M 
M 
M 
M 
M 
10 
30 
50 
25 
10 
1 
500 
100 
10 
70 
*10 
*10 
*30'? 
*60 
20 
1,000 
*100 
*30 
53 
8 
25 
P 
Several. 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
2 or 3 
60 
6 
9 
Sev’r’l loca¬ 
lities, small. 
Washinorton,. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Rensselaer,... 
do 
do 
Albany,. 
Richmond, .. • 
Columbia,.... 
do .... 
do .... 
do .... 
do .... 
S. Argyle, between Reed’s Mineral spring and Argyle. 
S. Argyle. 
S. Argyle, at south end of Summit lake. 
N. Greenwich, on A. McNeill’s farm. 
N. Greenwich, on P. Reynolds’ farm. 
Ditto ditto. 
Greenwich, various owners, one mile south of Lakeville. 
Between N. Argyle and Hartford. 
Greenwich, one and a half miles southwest of Lakeville. 
One mile southwest of N. Greenwich. 
Easton, on Stephen Durham’s land. 
Easton, on Simeon Burton’s land. 
Salem, four miles northwest of the village. 
Salem, three miles north of the village. 
W. Hebron, two miles southeast of the village. 
Kingsbury, on summit of Champlain canal. 
Fort Ann, between two lakes south of Mt. Hope. 
Fort Ann, two miles northeast of Mt. Hope furnace. 
Dresden, in several bodies. 
Putnam, four miles northwest of the ferry. 
Greenbush, on Boston turnpike and near railroad. 
Sandlake, northwest corner, on G. Sharp’s land. > Eaton’s Geologi- 
Sandlake, half mile south of above, in a pond. J cal Report. 
Coeymans, three miles from N. Baltimore, on Mr. Clark’s land. 
Several localities, small bodies, and not deep. 
Near Newtown, Long Island, (long used.) 
Between Williamstown and Jamaica, called Cedar swamp. 
One mile north of Jamaica. 
Pond four miles north of Kinderhook. 
Mr. Van Alen’s farm, three miles north of Kinderhook. 
North part of Stuyvesant, one mile from river. 
Ditto. 
Round pond, in north part of Kinderhook. 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
do 
Kinderhook lake. 
do 
do 
do 
Between Kinderhook lake and N. Chatham. 
One mile north of Kinderhook, west of post road. 
One mile southwest of Kinderhook, Lucas Hoe’s land. 
do 
do 
Between Kinderhook and Stu^'esant, township line. 
Two miles northeast of Valatie. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
New-Lebanon, GiUet’s, Tilden’s, etc. 
New-Lebanon, Mr. Carpenter’s land. 
New-Lebanon, Mr. Wait’s land, south of Fitch & Kirby’s store. 
Adgate’s pond, west side of Canaan mountain. 
Milan, one-fourth of a mile east of La Fayette Corners. 
One and a half miles east of Upper Redhook. 
Southwest of Becraft’s mountain, near Hudson. 
Ghent, Tobias Legget’s farm. 
Kinderhook, on Samuel Crocker’s farm. 
One or two miles west of Malden. 
do 
Ghent, in south part of the town. 
Localities thus marked not examined personally, but do not doubt their correctness. 
