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At the "Upper Narrows" of the Baraboo river
near the ^Ableman rail road station, the rocks show five
different epochs or ages

1st - The dark reddish* quartzite which is
the oldest of the series. It has a varying dip
towards the north, and is cut by cleavage plains
in different directions. It forms high
steep bluffs with irregular columnar
projections Ripple marks on the
nearly perpendicular faces of some of these
rocks, plainly show that the strata have
been tilled [tilted] up from the horizontal position.

2d - A portion of this quartzite after it
had been hardened and metamorphosed has been
broken into angular fragments of all sizes and
well characlevized [characterized]
forms, and then cemented into a breccia.
The cement is usually quartz - with talc.
Some cavitees [cavities] are lined with small crystals
of quartz This breccia lies between
layers of quartzite, which show no indications
of any difference of age except their super=
=position, nor would it be possible to determine
when the brecciation occurred

* The grey [colls?] when seen in mass is owing
to the lichens that cover nearly the whole surface
of these rocks