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The hole, mentioned on the preceding page, was driven down 365 feet, when the resistance of the sand became too great to be overcome, and the drillers moved their apparatus. The top of the moraine is 900 feet above Syracuse. From the top down to the top of the hole is about three hundred feet: so the bottom of the hole is still 235 feet above Syracuse.
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Tully, Onondaga, Co., N.Y. -
Wednesday, August 29, 1888 -
I examined the upper Hamilton Shales, on the east side
of Christian, or Tully Valley, in the hills.
Dip o-
Near the top of the hill, and close under the Tully Limestone, was a crevice 8 [[superscript]] in [[/superscript]] wide and very deep, of unknown length. It extended east and west. This very clearly shows the fracturing of a Geanticlinal movement.
At about this same level, there have occurred, at various periods, explosions of gas, threw out the dirt, in one case over two hundred cubic feet of dirt, at a time! Say 10 times. There are a number of these holes.