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by the West-Point foundry, quite narrow, to near Anthony’s Nose mountain. Another occurs 
on the east side of Peekskill bay, one and a half miles south of Peekskill; another at Ver- 
planck’s point; another along the bay east of Verplanck’s point; another forms Teller’s point, 
which was an island of this formation, now connected with the main land by a marsh of allu¬ 
vial deposition. Another forms the shore of Haverstraw bay, between Teller’s point and the 
point two miles north. 
A small patch occurs at Tarrytown, and others occur in the valleys of all the main streams 
of Westchester county, the principal of which are Scrub-oak plains in Yorktown, and the 
plains in Somers and Bedford. 
Some other small deposits of this formation occur on the bank of the Hudson, as at Dobb’s 
ferry in Yonkers, and Manhattanville, which are very narrow. The last extends across New- 
York island to Harlem, where it spreads into plains. 
In Rockland county, a deposit of this formation occurs in Clarkstown and Orangetown ; 
another, in Haverstraw, extending from the base of the High Tom (the highest peak of the 
Palisades), by Haverstraw and Grassy point, to Stony point; and another along the shore at 
the base of the Dunderberg mountain, near Caldwell’s landing. 
In Orange county, the quaternary occupies a considerable area between Newburgh and the 
Highlands, and small patches occur in the Highlands near the shore of the Hudson. One 
of these is in the valley between Butter hill and the north branch of the Crow’s Nest; ano¬ 
ther, composed mostly of gravel overlying the boulders and coarse drift, but without clay 
beds, extends from the base of the Crow’s Nest mountain, by Washington’s valley, to West- 
Point, where it forms the plain of West-Point. This deposit may belong to the drift. 
Another deposit of the quaternary exists in Goshen. It has been exposed in draining the 
Drowned lands ; and several patches of it occur in the valley of the Walkill and its tributa¬ 
ries, and in that of Murderer’s creek and its branches. Another exists about Port Jervis, 
Carpenter’s point and Cuddebackville, on the Neversink and Basher’s kill. 
In Ulster county, besides the large deposit already mentioned as extending from Washing¬ 
ton county through Saratoga, Albany and Greene into Ulster, are several patches of the qua¬ 
ternary. One is on the shore of the Hudson, south of Marlborough; another north of Marl¬ 
borough ; another near Paltz landing; another extends from Rosendale on the Rondout, across 
to the Walkill, and up the valley of that stream by Springtown, New-Paltz and Libertyville, 
and thence in narrow belts up the valleys of the Shawangunk and Walkill rivers. 
In Schoharie county, the quaternary deposits occur in the valley of the Schoharie creek, 
between Esperance and North-Blenheim. At Schoharie, all the members are well charac¬ 
terized. 
The sand beds of this formation in the Hudson valley, do not cover extensive areas with 
loose deep sands that drift, or make the travelling over them tedious, except the sand plains 
of Albany, Schenectady and Saratoga counties; those about Sandy-hill and Galesville in 
Washington county; and between Glasco, Kingston, Rosendale and Springtown in Ulster 
county; and on Long island. The sand is deep and loose along much of the southern shore 
of the island; along the central part to Riverhead and Canoe place ; from Sag-Harbor to 
