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GEOLOGY OF THE FIRST DISTRICT. 
state of nature, covered with timber, and by many considered of little value when the pine 
lumber is cut off. The soil, though rough, stony, and generally mountain land, produces fair 
crops when cultivated. Its aspect is forbidding to the cultivator, and is better adapted for 
grazing than cultivation. The natural soil compares well with the mountain lands of Ver¬ 
mont, Massachusetts and Connecticut; but as long as there are such quantities of better 
land for cultivation at a cheap rate, near our principal markets, these will scarcely be occupied. 
Table continuer. 
STATIONS. 
Station I. A littk south of Mearn’spoint. 
To Kosciuszko’s monument.. 
Pyrophyllite point... 
Augite point. 
Sugarloaf mountain peak. 
Flourmill, and to the rocky peninsula on the flats east of West- 
Point . 
Fort Putnam... 
Bare Rock summit... 
Faurot’s wharf N. 60° W. 
000 00 
320 00 
16 30 
23 00 
354 30 
351 20 
325 00 
Station K. On Wagon's island. 
To Anthony’s Nose peak. 
Bear mountain peak. 
Fort Montgomery lower landing. 
Ditto... 
Ditto, upper landing, and Anthony’s point in line. 
Point towards Peekskill, and to upper wharf.. 
Peekskill principal landing. 
Dunderherg point on the shore. 
Island one Hundred yards off shore near the base of Anthony’s 
Nose mountain referred to in the notes of courses on that 
shore, vide p. 551. 
the east peak of the Dunderherg mountain. 
000 00 
289 00 
338 00 
339 00 
345 00 
121 30 
125 45 
142 00 
Station L. _ Fort Montgomery upper landing. 
To Anthony’s Nose high peak. 
Station K, and to Anthony’s Nose point. 
the northwest point of Wagon’s island, south of Anthony’s 
Nose. 
the southwest point of same place. 
the second point of the Dunderherg. 
Station I. on Mearn’s point. 
Two peaks of the Sugarloaf mountain. 
Point below Station I. (Serpentine point) westwardly from the 
“ Old silver mine”. 
Rocks below the salt marsh. 
Upper point of next rocks (island on edge of the marsh). 
Lower point of the same. 
Bear mountain summit... 
Ditto, eastern summit. 
000 00 
25 50 
31 30 
42 00 
53 15 
277 00 
265 45 
284 15 
287 00 
294 30 
328 00 
96 30 
82 00 
Station 0. Southeast comer of hospital garden fence. 
To Station C. (m.) at east end of the base line . 
Kosciuszko’s monument. 
Gouverneur’s point. 
Gouverneur’s wharf point. 
Gouverneur’s house (Phillips manor house). 
Battery on the hill east of the house. 
North peak of the hill north of the Sugarloaf mountain.. 
North peak of the same. 
000 00 
1 20 
46 40 
54 25 
61 30 
81 40 
119 55 
142 20 
