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Palenville, are red arenaceous shales (1497 Al), whicli contain the 
fucoid (?) markings of the Catskill red shales. 
A short distance from this exposure, and to the north of the cottage 
and Drummond Falls House, in a branch of the Kaaterskill, are Drurn- 
mond Falls. The cliff toward the liouse is composed of red shale? 
which breaks up into very line fragments, with a little mottled shale 
in the lower part. The brink of the falls and upper part of the ledge 
to the north are composed of gray sandstone and shales. The foot of 
Drummond Falls is about 125 feet lower than the Palenville railroad 
station which makes its altitude approximately 389 feet A. T. 1 
JS T o. 1497 Bl — The Hugh Smith quarry is on the road from Saxon 
post-office to the great Falls of the Kaaterskill, and about one-half 
mile from them. The quarry is in the Hamilton "blue stone" belt, 
similar to the stone near West Hurley, and is composed principally of 
blue flagging stone with some shale stripping on top. The Great Falls 
of the Kaaterskill 2 (1497 B2) are below the covered bridge and post- 
office, about 4 miles east of Palenville. The brink of the falls is formed 
by a prominent sandstone stratum, between 3 and 4 feet in thickness, 
and at the bottom of the falls is another similar layer. Above the 
falls, in the coarse arenaceous part of the prominent sandstone stratum 
are fossil shells, such as are usually found in similar zones of the Ham- 
ilton. There is quite a decided dip between west and northwest. 
Fauna of No. 1497 B2. 3 
Spirifera mueronata (Con.) Bill (a) 
Spirifera granulifera Hall (c) 
Spirifera medialis Hall (?)..- „ (r) 
Stropliodonta perplana (Con. (?) (rr) 
Grammysia bisulcata (C911. ) Hall (?) (rr) 
Below the brink of the falls, and along the sides of the gorge are 
argillaceous blue shales (1497 B3), splitting up finely, which contain 
many fossils characteristic of the argillaceous Hamilton shales. The 
falls are about 40 feet in height. 
Fauna of No. 1197 B3. 
Chonetes coronata (Con.) Hall (c) 
Spirifera mueronata (Con. ) Bill (rr) 
Nyassa arguta Hall (rr) 
Nucnla corbnliformis Hall (rr) 
Paracyclas lirata (Con.) Hall (rr) 
Nuculites oblongatns Con (rr) 
Loxonema delphiedla Hall (rr) 
Lingnla sp (rr) 
1 Altitude of Palenville railroad station, according to a letter from C. A. Beach, superintendent 
Catskill Mountain Railroad, is 514 feet. 
2 This part of the creek is frequently spelled Cauterskill. 
3 Prof. "William M. Davis reported at the Big falls " Spirifer accuminata and mueronata, Grammysia 
bisulcata, and others" (Appalachia, Vol.111, Juno 1882. p. 29), and later said that " Spirifer mucro- 
natasuid medians are both of common occurrence" at this locality (Bull. Mus. Com. Z00L, Geol. Ser., 
Vol. I, No. X, January, 1883, p. 318). 
