. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. 58 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. of foreign parentage. Many of them consist of granite and gneiss, some of sandstone from below, others of lime- stone from above. Many of the rocks bear evidences of the wearing action of water, running and carrying materials which wore away, and in some instances polished, the sur- face of the rocks. In some places the abrupt offsets from one strata to ano
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. 58 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. of foreign parentage. Many of them consist of granite and gneiss, some of sandstone from below, others of lime- stone from above. Many of the rocks bear evidences of the wearing action of water, running and carrying materials which wore away, and in some instances polished, the sur- face of the rocks. In some places the abrupt offsets from one strata to another have been worn down to a gradual slope. The agency of running water in producing our di- luvial deposits is very obvious; and the formation of these deposits shows not only the action of running water in one direction, but also oP eddies and counter-currents. In many places we find the coarser deposits on the south side and Cohocton they are chiefly derived from primary rocks, some of the crystalline formation, others of granite, gneiss, and feldspar combined. On the farm of Albert Seeley, in the town of Pulteney, is a large bowlder of this descrip- tion, the parent bed of which cannot be nearer than the primitive formations of the north of this continent* Granite is found scattered through almost all the northern towns of the county, and in the southern it is mingled with masses of conglomerate. In some instances, as in Urbana, Wayne, Wheeler, and Bath, large blocks are accompanied by rolled pebbles of greenstone, sandstone, sienite, and limestone. In the valleys of the Conhocton, Canisteo, Five- and Twelve-. PENCIL SKETCH OF THE RAVINE AT HAMMONDSPORT, EXPOSING TO VIEW 300 FEET OF SHALE AND SANDSTONE. of the hills, and their ascent more abrupt. We find also granite bowlders in the same deposit with those of limestone, many of them worn and rounded as by the whirl of counter- currents. And many of our hills and valleys bear evidence of such eddies and currents of water in
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