. Off-hand sketches : a companion for the tourist and traveller over the Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad . 150 OFF-II AND SKETCHES,. FIG. 37. lying in an unconformable position to the more modern overlayingsurface. Various writers have cautioned the observer against certain decep-tive appearances of the strata in particular lines of coast, (which areno less frequent in our mountain regions,) w^here beds, apparentlyhorizontal, in reality dip at a very considerable angle. The follow-ing fig. 38, exhibits a headland as seen from the south, in whichthe strata appear to the eye perfe
. Off-hand sketches : a companion for the tourist and traveller over the Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad . 150 OFF-II AND SKETCHES,. FIG. 37. lying in an unconformable position to the more modern overlayingsurface. Various writers have cautioned the observer against certain decep-tive appearances of the strata in particular lines of coast, (which areno less frequent in our mountain regions,) w^here beds, apparentlyhorizontal, in reality dip at a very considerable angle. The follow-ing fig. 38, exhibits a headland as seen from the south, in whichthe strata appear to the eye perfectly level. There appears to be nomistake about their horizontal position ; but if the headland treads
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