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Excerpt from The American Geologist, Vol. 8: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences, July to December, 1891 Situated right in the midst of the Taconic region Mt. Greylock has been often alluded to during the last seventy years in the much debated Taconic Question. Professors C. Dewey, E. Emmons, E. Hitchcock and J. D. Dana are the principal authorities on the geology of the mountain. The general synclinal structure of the mass and also the fact that it consists mainly of certain schists underlaid by limestone are well known. Professor Dana has also conjectured the anticlinal structure of the hollow which separates two of its ridges. The following description is based upon the new 20 ft. Contour map made by the topographers of the U. S. Geological Survey, and upon extended and laborious geological explorations, and upon the careful microscopic study of lithological specimens by Mr. J. E. Wolff. The results of modern topography, orography and petrography have been brought to bear upon the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.