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ledge of granite, in the town of Andover, This rock seems to be 

 the prevailing variety all the way to Bryant's pond, except a strip 

 of gneiss about two miles wide in the north part of Rumford. An- 

 dover is another village nearly surrounded by an amphitheater of 

 high mountains. Ellis' river runs through the township and lies 

 in a wide valley at the village, with extensive meadows and well 

 formed terraces. The " Corners" village is built upon the third 

 terrace. About Bryant's pond the granite is the tabular variety. 

 Three or four miles before reaching South Paris station may be 

 seen several ledges of obscure mica schist, which probably extend 

 through the whole of the low land bordering upon the Little An- 

 droscoggin river. 



At the famous Tourmaline locality upon Mt. Mica, we find that 

 mica schist was the original rock, but it has been mostly displaced 

 by granite ; while the tourmaline vein is a vein of doubly coarse 

 granite in granite. The term "mount" is hardly appropriate to 

 this swell of land, in the midst of so many higher summits desig- 

 nated hills. 



At Paris Hill the rock is granite. It is granite on the road to 

 North Buckfield nearly to the village, then succeeds mica schist. 

 Between North Buckfield and Buckfield village is a very large vein 

 of granite. Mica schist occurs in the west part of the town. The 

 magnetic iron ore however, occurs in granite. Between West 

 Buckfield and. Paris the rock is entirely granite. In North Buck- 

 field one sees many patches of impure limestone. 



Meteors. 

 Black heavy masses of metallic iron called meteors have some- 

 times been seen to fall from the sky. One such example in Maine 

 was in Castine, of which specimens can be found in some collec- 

 tions. Another mass fell in Sidney twenty-five years ago, but the 

 fragments have been lost. Such fragments may sometimes be 

 found in the fields, of whose time of falling there is no record. We 

 present these brief statements in the hope that if any person who 

 reads them may chance to know of the existence of such fragments 

 anywhere in the State, he will convey such information to the Sur- 

 vey. There is no value attached to such specimens other than 

 what interest is connected with them on account of their source. 

 They must be fragments of other worlds, or each entire meteor may 

 be a world by itself. It is an interesting theory that "between 



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