Annual report . illage,grazing and fruit growing. West of the river the topography,soil and drainage are peculiarly adapted to the growing of fruit,for which the proximity of the river affords excellent climaticconditions. Dutchess county was settled very early in the history of theState. The country is attractive. It is easy to imagine that im-migrants voyaging up the Hudson through the inhospitable regionof the Highlands would have been attracted by the stretches ofopen country which lay north of the rugged mountains. The quadrangle is easy of access. Boats plying between NewYork and Albany
Annual report . illage,grazing and fruit growing. West of the river the topography,soil and drainage are peculiarly adapted to the growing of fruit,for which the proximity of the river affords excellent climaticconditions. Dutchess county was settled very early in the history of theState. The country is attractive. It is easy to imagine that im-migrants voyaging up the Hudson through the inhospitable regionof the Highlands would have been attracted by the stretches ofopen country which lay north of the rugged mountains. The quadrangle is easy of access. Boats plying between NewYork and Albany stop at Newburgh and Poughkeepsie. The NewYork Central and West Shore lines, connecting with Albany andthe West, follow the banks of the Hudson. The former joins withthe Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut division of the CentralNew England at Dutchess Junction and Fishkill Landing, and atPoughkeepsie with the main line division of that road. At Pough-keepsie it also crosses the Highland division of the New York,. 75° Greenwich Vvv\$tj° Fig. i Sketch map showing location of Poughkeepsie quadrangle GEOLOGY OF THE POUGHKEEPSIE QUADRANGLE 7 New Haven and Hartford. Ferries cross between Fishkill Land-ing and Newburgh and between Poughkeepsie and Highland on theWest Shore Railroad. TOPOGRAPHY East of the Hudson the topography is chiefly that of a rollingupland of moderate elevation, which is due in part to the natureand structure of the underlying rock formations as affected byerosion, and in part to the mantle of glacial deposits. Along the southern margin of the quadrangle are several ruggedspurs of the Highlands. These are bold, often precipitous, andusually wooded. They are known as the Fishkill mountains, receiv-ing their name from old Fishkill township, of which they are a mountains are made up chiefly of Precambric gneisses andare flanked by and faulted with the Paleozoics of the valley. The westernmost Highland spur is the northern extension ofBreakneck mountain
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