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source of [[crossed out]]Supplies[[/crossed out]] supply. The state Geologist- [[Clem?]] at the time could not tell how the flint got there. The present one is the same - Easy. Hot water brought it down from the 2000000 mies azoic rock in Canada before contracting earth forced up the Adirondacks- It is one mile long. 1/2 mile wide, folded up through mixture of flint & sandstone- It probably millions of years ago had much water borne rocks over it- and over that lime rock- worn away by waters from the north- 

The Sides of the Hill & fields around for ten feet deep is more rejected fragments of flint mixed with hammer stones- many of them split to [[fine??]] a sharp edge- ends & edges battered- Parker took to albany large quantities- He said it would take 500 men centuries to handle that rejected fragments. The West shore used much of it for ballast on the [[reut wad??]]- 2 miles north a similar hill only [[crossed out]]is[[/crossed out]] the silex was crystalized