QUATERNARY DIVISION. 
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The Stuyvesant meadows in the city of New-York, formerly a salt marsh, with alluvion 
superposed on the quaternary, is now dyked out, and much of it filled in and graded for 
streets, and some of it is covered with streets. The three following sections are in this area. 
A boring made for the Dry Dock Company at the corner of Avenue D and Tenth-street, 
gave the following sections : 
Made earth filling,. 6 feet. 
Marsh mud,. 10 “ 
Quicksand,. 12 “ 
Shore sand and gravel,. 53 “ 
Hardpan,. 6 “ 
Coarse gravel,. 3 “ 
Granite.* 
Another at the corner of Avenue D and Fifth-street: 
Made earth filling,. 6 feet. 
Marsh mud,. 10 
Quicksand and gravel,. 65 “ 
Grey clay,. 15 “ 
Granite. Water rose within four feet of the surface.* 
Another at the corner of Rivington and Columbia streets : 
Well,. 20 feet. 
Quicksand,. 10 “ 
Marsh mud and clay,. 20 “ 
Grey clay,. 10 “ 
Granite. Fine water obtained.* 
Another boring was made at the corner of Allen and Hester-streets, New-York ; 
Well already dug,.40 feet. 
Quicksand, some layers of gravel, .20 “ 
Clay,. 2 “ 
Coarse gravel and sand,___ 5* “ 
Another was made in Broad-street, for Mr. Tunis Quick : 
Made ground, filling,. 4 feet. 
Yellow clay,. 6 “ 
Gravel and quicksand,. 19 “ 
Grey clay,. 10 “ 
Granite. Water rose within 7 feet of the surface.* 
At New-York, (and many other places may be named on Long island and in the Hudson 
valley,) the quaternary beds of clay, sand and gravel, are covered with deposits like the drift, 
^ Alluvial. 
^ Quaternary. 
I Drift. 
> Alluvial. 
^ Quaternary. 
^ Alluvial. 
[ Quaternary. 
^ Quaternary. 
Drift? 
> Quaternary. 
Silliman’s Journal, Vol. 12, p. 141. 
