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on the road to Port Jervis
Fort t three miles south of Secund
are seen the red rocks of the Shipl Falls Slate.
A mile further the old quarry party.
Shawangunk in full face at Havan-
fried.
May 3-1910
Left Port Jervis at 7 A.M. for the Bear's no quarries. Took the road on the western side of Halfmoon ridge and then climbed over to
the quarries on the eastern side of the ridge.
On going over the ridge are climbed up over a
steep slope of white quartzite that are taken from
Shawangunk. Then are got to the top are some
came upon Esopus, and then the Lower
Oriskany Rensselaer aquicagidicta beds. That
this quartzite is over the Esopus does not know.
It should known go into the Oriskany as over it
comes the Onondaga. Its thickness so far as we
could see was not one 20 t, 25 feet thick,
if or thier.
The Heldeteryian is not were exposed
here. The New Holland is shale here and
all others a limestone. The Colymans is