DRIFT DIVISION. 
201 
No. of 
examples. 
Name of Ob- 
Kiud of rock 
smoothed and 
scratched. 
County in which 
ihe locality was 
Direction of the 
scratches. 
Eeference to 
works in which 
the observations 
are registered. 
LOCALITIES. 
Remarks. 
Many, 
say 20 
Merrick .... 
Argillaceous 
and siliceous 
slate and grit 
and mica 
slate 
Dutchess.... 
Not noted... 
m. V, p. 141. 
On the road from Redhook by Rock city to Amenia. 
Many, 
say 20 
do . 
Grit and slate 
do .... 
do .... 
m. V, p. 151. 
Abundant in Washington, Stanford and Clinton. 
Many, 
say 10 
1 
do . 
Gneiss . 
do .... 
do .... 
m. V, p. 163. 
Between Stormville in Fishkill, and Milltown in Put¬ 
nam county. 
Lawrence... 
Talcy slate .. 
Columbia ... 
N45°W ... 
m. ii, p. 27. 
Mountain top, east of Shaker village in New-Lebanon. 
1 
do . 
do .... 
do .... 
N450 W > 
N45“E 1 
NW&SE.. 
m. ii, p. 27. 
Sts miles north of the preceding locality. 
Double set. 
1 
Briggs . 
Slate . 
do .... 
m, ii, p. 
Eight miles from the Shaker village on the north side of 
Fogg hill, in sight of Flint’s tavern. 
Near the top of Fogg hill in Austerlitz, a few rods south 
of the second house from the preceding locality. 
1 
do . 
. 
do .... 
Not noted .. 
m. ii, p. 
1 
Many, 
say 8 
do . 
do. 
do .... 
N 10“ W ... 
m. ii, p. 307. 
Near Brown’s hotel, Chatham Four Corners, Ghent, 
on the railroad track of the Hudson and West-Stock- 
bridge railroad. 
New-Lebanon, on the mountain east of the brick yard. 
Shaker village. 
do . 
Slate and tal¬ 
cy slate 
do .... 
N 20° W to 
N30» W 
m. ii, p. 339. 
1 
do . 
Limestone .. 
do .... 
N-W. 
m. ii, p. 345. 
Near the alum rock, north of Lebanon springs, on the 
west side of the mountain. 
Many, 
say 10 
1 
do . 
Slate and tal¬ 
cy slate 
do 
NNE and S 
SWI 
m. ii, p. 350. 
On the mountain north of New-Lebanon springs. 
do . 
Slate . 
do .... 
Not noted .. 
m. ii, p. 382. 
New-Lebanon, “ near Moffit’s.” 
1 
do . 
do . 
do .... 
do 
m. ii, p. 385. 
New-Lebanon, “ near Grant’s.” 
1 
do . 
do . 
do .... 
NISO W... 
m. ii, p. 288. 
Twelve miles from Hudson, on the road from the south¬ 
west part of Canaan to Hudson. 
1 
Mather. 
do . 
do .... 
N550 W ... 
m. iii, p. 84. 
On the side of the Hartford and Hudson turnpike, near 
the line between New-York and Massachusetts, at an 
angle of the transverse valley of the mountain, two 
hundred feet above the bottom of the valley, and pro¬ 
bably fifteen hundred to two thousand feet above the 
Hudson. 
2 
do . 
do . 
do .... 
N20OW ) 
N 500 E ^ 
m. iii, p. 85. 
On the same turnpike, eleven miles from Hudson; one 
about one hundred and fifty yards east, and the other 
two hundred yards west, of the turnpike gate. 
1 
do . 
do . 
do 
Not noted... 
m. iii, p. 151. 
Two miles southwest of Kinderhook, on the east side 
of a by-road, near the road from K. H. to Hudson. 
On the Columbia turnpike, three miles east of Hillsdale, 
on the west side of the mountain. 
1 
do . 
Talcy slate.. 
do .... 
do .... 
m. iii, p. 225. 
1 
do . 
do 
do .... 
do 
m. iii, p. 225. 
On the summit of the mountain, on the turnpike from 
Hillsdale to Egremont and Stockbridge. 
On the summit of the same mountain, two or three miles 
north of the preceding, on a cross road from Little- 
York in Egremont, leading west over the mountain 
to M. T. Palmer’s, in Hillsdale. 
1 
do . 
do .... 
do .... 
do 
m. iii, p. 225. 
1 
do . 
Slate . 
do .... 
N30O W ... 
m. iii, p. 279. 
In the top of the gorge of the mountain, two and a half 
miles northwest of Hillsdale, in the road on the farm 
of Andrew Shorts. 
1 
Many, 
say 20 
Cassels. 
do . 
Not noted, but 
on slate 
Slate . 
do .... 
do .... 
Not noted ... 
N350 W ... 
m. iii, p. 279. 
m. iv, p. 102. 
Two miles west of the preceding, on Joseph Goodsel’s 
farm. 
On the top of the hill, four and a half miles from Johns¬ 
town, on the road to Hudson. 
Merrick .... 
Talcose and 
argillaceous 
slate locks 
filled with 
veins of 
quartz 
Geol. 1 
do 
ST Dist. 
N230 W ... 
m. V, p. 62. 
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Austerlitz. All the mountain north and northeast of 
Green river for three or four miles, seems to have been 
ground off smooth by diluvial action. Grooves and 
scratches very distinct and uniform in direction. 
