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GEOLOGY OF THE FIRST DISTRICT. 
No. 
Strike. 
Dip. 
Kind of rock. 
LOCALITIES. 
14 
Northward .... 
Eastward nearly verti¬ 
cal 
Limestone (white), and mica 
slate containing garnets, 
Near Amenia furnace. 
15 
do .... 
Eastward 60° to 70° .. 
White limestone. 
Between Leedsville and Hitchcock’s corners. 
l(i 
do .... 
do do 
Granular quartz. 
Southeast of Kline’s corners. 
17 
N 10°E. 
N 80°, W 85°. 
Mica slate. 
The mountain, from west of Amenia to the Amenia 
furnace (Merrick). 
18 
N45°W. 
High angle, direction 
not stated 
do . 
Mountain west of Amenia furnace (Cassels). 
19 
N 30° E. 
Eastward. 
Sparry limestone. 
Near one-half mile north of Lithgow, near the Epis¬ 
copal church (Cassels). 
20 
Horizontal and slightly 
inclined 
Limestone and mica talc 
slate 
Between the Chalk-pond ore bed and Perry’s corner. 
21 
N and S nearly 
Eastward 60° to 90° .. 
Limestone and mica slate .. 
Dover valley. 
22 
N and S bearing 
a little east 
Eastward, high angle . 
Gneiss,micaceous gneiss,and 
granitic rocks, like those 
of the Highlands 
Along east line of New-York, between Kline’s cor¬ 
ners and Kent’s furnace. 
23 
do do 
do do 
Mica slate and white lime¬ 
stone 
Mountain between Leedsville and Amenia. Vide 
PI. 23, fig. 3. 
24 
do do 
Westward 10° to 40° . 
Mica slate, decomposing, 
from containing pyrites 
At the Alum rock, on the mountain southwest of 
Amenia. 
25 
Northward .... 
Eastwardly, high angle 
Blue limestone. 
At west base of the mountain, between city and Pine- 
plains (Cassels). 
26 
N 15° to 10° E. 
Westward 70 to 90° .. 
Gneiss, hornblendic gneiss, 
etc., like the rocks of the 
Highlands 
Mount Stessing southwest of Pineplains. 
27 
Northward .... 
Eastward, high angle . 
Mica and talc slate, and 
limestone 
Winchell’s mountain between Pineplains and Pul- 
ver's corners. 
28 
do .... 
do do 
do do 
Between Pulver’s corners and Spencer’s corners. 
29 
do .... 
do 30° or 40° . 
Mica slate containing gar¬ 
nets, staurotide and py¬ 
rites 
Near the Salisbury ore bed, Connecticut, near Dutch¬ 
ess county. 
30 
NNE . 
ESE, high angle . ... 
Slate covered with drift 
scratches on the steep 
sides, as well as on the 
slightly inclined 
On the south side of the Chicomeco valley, on the 
road from Pineplains to Ancram furnace. 
31 
S70° W? .... 
Eastward 60° to 70° .. 
Slate and limestone. 
At and near the Ancram lead mine. Vide PI. 23. 
32 
Northward .... 
Westward slightly. 
Slate and limestone at their 
junction 
One-quarter of a mile southeast of Pulver’s corners. 
33 
do .... 
Nearly horizontal .... 
Guartz rock, stratified .... 
Between Attlebury and Coldsprings, south end of 
Mount Stessing. 
34 
Nearly north 
Eastward 40° to 60° .. 
Grits, slates, etc. 
Generally along the shore of the Hudson and in the 
interior, but local variations are numerous. 
35 
do 
do do . 
Islands south of Redhook. 
36 
IVW. 
3W 30°. 
At Barnegat, west of the Kilns. 
One-half mile north of Barnegat. 
37 
NE. 
SE 30°. 
do do . 
38 
NNE. 
ESE 80° to 90°. 
Slate and slaty limestone, 
containing shells like those 
of the Trenton limestone 
One and a half or one and three-quarter miles north 
of Barnegat, on the shore of the Hudson, Strike 
and dip very variable about Barnegat. 
39 
Very variable in strike 
and dip. Great de¬ 
rangements and con¬ 
tortions. 
Slates, grits, slaty grits, etc. 
Near Rhinebeck landing and Lower Redhook, and 
also about Thompson’s landing. 
40 
N 50° E. 
S60°to 70° E.. 
Granite and gneiss, bounded 
by red and green slates 
and limestone 
Lewis’s landing. 
41 
N 45° to 60° E 
S60 to 80°E. 
Gneiss, hornblendic gneiss. 
Fishkill mountains east and southeast of Stormville. 
42 
N to E. 
Vertical .. 
limncfAno 
One mile w.est of Poughquaick. 
At Bockee’s and Bryan’s lead mines, veins fill joints 
in rocks of eastern and western directions. 
43 
N and S. 
E75°. 
Barnegat limestone. 
44 
Northward .... 
Westward 15° to 20° . 
Limestone (low ridge) .... 
One mile south of Milan, near the “ Christian ” meet¬ 
ing house. 
