prossek.] ULSTER AND DELAWARE R. R. SECTION. 53 
shale by the side of the highway east of the Ulster and Delaware Bail- 
road track after crossing Esopns Creek and about 2 miles west of 
Kingston station of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad. The rock is a 
black, very argillaceous shale, which contains only a few fossils and 
belongs to the Marcellus stage. This outcrop is the second rather 
prominent ledge by the highway east of the railroad. The first one, 
just east of the tollgate, is a calcareous rock, which may represent the 
base of the Hamilton. The elevation of this exposure (1486 Dl) is near 
that of the Fair street station of the Ulster and Delaware, possibly 10 
to 15 feet higher. 
No. 14>6 D2. — First cut on Ulster and Delaware Railroad going 
west, after crossing Esopus Creek. This exposure, which is west of 
the Marcellus shales of Dl, and perhaps 30 feet higher than the 
Kingston station on Fair street, is a blue, somewhat calcareous, fine- 
grained rock, with a conchoidal fracture. The dip is about 5° west of 
north, as shown in the side of the cut. Only a few fossils were found, 
Chouetes and Aulopova (?) being the most abundant. 
No. 1487 A5. — In a cut west of the one just described, where the 
road from Jockey Hill joins the Kingston and West Hurley highway, 
east of Stony Hollow, are fine fissile shales, weathering to a brown. 
Lithologically these shales are similar to the Marcellus; but in the next 
railroad cut, not far to the east, are blocky Hamilton shales. 
No. 1487 A4.— The first cut east of Stony Hollow sIioavs rather coarse 
blue, arenaceous shales, in which fossils are common. The arenaceous 
layers have a dip of about 5° to the northwest, which is probably near 
the direction of the greatest dip. The cut is a little higher than Stony 
Hollow, which is 8 miles from Rondout, with an elevation of 410 feet 
A. T. 1 NuGulites oblongaitis Con. is one of the most common fossils in 
this cut. 
Fauna of No. 1487 A4. 
Nnenlites oblongatus Con (aa) 
Naonla bellistriata ( Con . ) Hall (a) 
Nueulites triqueter Con (c) 
Paracyclas lirata (Oon.) Hall (c) 
Paheoneilo constricta (Con.) I fall (c) 
Modiella pygmrea (Con. ) Hall (r) 
Orthonota ( ?) parvula Hall (rr) 
Spirifera mucronata (Con. ) Bill (rr) 
Phynchonella cf. congregata J I all (r) 
Leiorliynchns multicosta Hall (rr) 
Athyris spiriferoides (Eaton) Hail (rr) 
Chonetes eoronata ( ( 'on. ) Hall (rr) 
Lingnla alveata Hall (?) (c) 
Ortlioceras constrietum Van. (?) (rr) 
EJrammysia, two species, but too imperfectly preserved to identify specific- 
ally (rr) 
Bellerophon sp (rr) 
Leptodesma sp (rr) 
Fenestella sp (rr) 
1 Van Loan's Catsldll Mountain Guide, 1890, p. 75. 
