. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . burg Valley and Cherry Valley aswell, the same well-known marks are found atelevations only four hundred to four hundredand fifty feet above tide. The direction ofthese stria: is always toward the southwest,corresponding, in some degree, with the trend ofthe mountains. The strur of greatest eleva-tiou, viz.: those at twenty-one hundred andfifty feet above tide, which are found in Cool-baugh township, above Tobyhanna Mills, bear Ridge, has been removed from the top and sideof the northern slope by this same power, allthe way from Carp
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . burg Valley and Cherry Valley aswell, the same well-known marks are found atelevations only four hundred to four hundredand fifty feet above tide. The direction ofthese stria: is always toward the southwest,corresponding, in some degree, with the trend ofthe mountains. The strur of greatest eleva-tiou, viz.: those at twenty-one hundred andfifty feet above tide, which are found in Cool-baugh township, above Tobyhanna Mills, bear Ridge, has been removed from the top and sideof the northern slope by this same power, allthe way from Carpenters Point to Strouds-burg. The cauda-galli, which originallyunderlay the eorniferous limestone, has been de-nuded, except in protected folds, and now formsthe surface rock of the north slope, bare and pol-ished by the ice, while huge blocks of the eornif-erous limestone have been hurled over the southfront ef the ridge, and scattered far and wide bythe transporting power of the ice, or deposited inmounds and ridges, along with morainic ihhris. Wayne. Co. TOPOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE MAP OF MONROE COUNTY, S. 5° W., or very nearly due south; those far-ther down, and nearer the sturdy barriers ofGodfreys Ridge and the Blue Mountain, bearmore to the west, some of them as much as 70°west of south. The hard rocks of Southern Monroe, likethe eorniferous limestone and cauda-galli ofGodfreys Ridge, have been planed and polishedby this same resistless agency, and ProfessorWhite, in his report upon the Second Geologi-cal Survey of Pike and Monroe Counties (, 47), states that nearly the entire stratum ofeorniferous limestone, which, in pre-glacialtimes, covered the southern side of Godfreys This stupendous result was doubtless facili-tated by reason of the double system of jointswhich prevails in this stratum,—to wit, thebedding-planes and transverse seams furnish-ing numerous fissures, into which the glacierdrove its Titanic wedges, thus tearing off im-mense masses of rock at once,
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