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stone which weathers to a gray and becomes harder. Interstratified 
with the quarry stone are layers of red shale and sandstone. The red 
blocky shales contain large numbers of the fucoid (!) so common in the 
red shales of the Oneonta and Oatskill stages. There is also a "pud- 
ding-stone" layer composed of different materials, clay pebbles with 
some quartz pebbles, and the whole mags is firmly solidified, In a blue 
argillaceous shale plant stems were found, also three rather imperfect 
fronds of Archceopteris* This quarry is barometrically 240 feet above 
the railroad station at Phoenicia, which is 798 feet A. T., so the quarry 
is approximately 1,038 feet A. T. 
.No. 1490 A2 is a ledge, not worked at present, farther up Mount 
Eomer and above the Baldwin quarry. The floor of the quarry is a 
pinkish sandstone, above which is the bluish gray, coarse-grained 
sandstone. There are also the usual irregular shaly layers, in some of 
which are fragments of ferns. This quarry is 440 feet above the rail- 
road barometrically, or with an approximate altitude of 1,238 feet A. T. 
Farther northwest, near the top of Mount Bonier, about three- 
fourths of a mile nearly west of the railroad station, is the McGraw 
quarry (1490 02), owned by Mr. John L. McGrath, of Phoenicia. This 
quarry is 500 feet above the railroad by the barometric reading, or 
with an approximate altitude of 1,298 feet A. T. The stone is mostly a 
bluish gray sandstone with an occasional pink tint, and is separated 
by shaly partings. Near the southern end of the quarry fragments of 
Archwopteris in bluish rather arenaceous shales were found 
No. 1490 PI. — The Boice quarry is on Tremper Mountain, 1J miles 
southeast of Phoenicia. The stone is bluish gray, which weathers to a 
pure gray, and the layers thicken and thin out very irregularly. There 
is reddish shale and blue' which weathers to an olive, argillaceous 
shale, in which are fossil plants; a few specimens of Archwopteris 
having been obtained. The quarry is between 150 and 160 feet above 
the railroad, or with an approximate altitude of 950 feet A. T. 
No. 1490 B2. — Winnie and Wolvern's quarry is farther up the 
mountain than the Boice quarry. It is composed largely of the bluish 
gray sandstone; but in the lower part of the upper half is a layer of 
bluish argillaceous shale Avhich is very smooth and contains no fossil 
plants. Large quartz pebbles were seen in nearly clear sandstone. 
Tiiis quarry is about 430 feet above the railroad, by the barometer, or 
with an approximate altitude of 1,230 feet A. T. 
No. 1490 B3. — Winnie and Murphy's quarry is still farther up the 
mountain, being some 701) feet above the railroad, or with an approxi- 
mate altitude of 1,500 feet A. T., and is 1J miles southeast of Phoenicia. 
The stone is mainly the bluish gray sandstone, rather thin-bedded, 
though there is some of the pink sandstone. There is a little argilla- 
ceous shale, which is very generally called " pencil" by the quarrymen. 
No fossils were found. 
No. 1490 Dl.— The McGrath or "old gold mine" quarry is the 
