l'O REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
from Warren and Sussex counties, but at present is unable to 
display those for lack of space and cases. 
Fossil Wood .—There are two excellent erase sections of white 
cellar that wore found buried eleven feet beneath the surface in 
a suit marsh near Dennisville, Capo May county, and donated 
the exhibit by Dr. Maurice Beasley. These specimens are over 
three feet, in diameter and are well preserved. At one time the 
digging out of these cedar logs in the salt swamps of Cape May 
county formed a valuable industry to the natives. 
Models. —The. large copper model of the State, on a scale of one 
inch per mile, which was made for exhibition at the Worlds 
Columbian Exposition, occupies a conspicuous place in the 
Museum and attracts much attention. It brings out more plainly 
than any series of maps the varied topography of the State and 
the contrasts between the northern and southern portion. 
in addition to the large model there are several small ones, 
made for the Pan-American Exposition, of selected localities in 
the State. These models are of so much interest geologically 
and so important from an educational point of view that descrip¬ 
tions of eight of them aro here given. 
THE .MORAINE WEST OF HACICETTSTOWN. 
These two models represent a small area of country on Pohat- 
cong mountain, one mile northwest of ITackettstown, Warren 
county, Mew Jersey. The uncolored model shows without ex- 
aggeration the form of the surface; the colored model represents 
both the form of the surface and the geology. The northwestern 
portion of the area was covered by the great ice sheet of the last 
glacial epoch. The commingled accumulation of bowlders, gravel, 
sand and clay, which was formed at the margin of the ice, is called 
the moraine. It is characterized by many sharp knolls, winding 
ridges and irregular depressions or kettles, some of which contain 
ponds or swamps. The surface is markedly rough and hummocky. 
Idie outer margin of the moraine belt is characterized by a some¬ 
what prominent "frontal moraine ridge generally higher than the 
surface of the moraine behind it.” 
The slopes of the country- southeast of the moraine are smooth 
and regular, very- different from those of the moraine. This 
