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ments, one over another so that people ascribe the 

 disturbance to an earth-quake. These stones struck 

 together give out divers clear and ringing tones ; the 

 largest fragments, and those not lying on the earth but 

 upon a bed of other pieces, give the clearest and 

 sharpest sounds, like a bell. The stone is of a blue 

 tint, and by reason of the sound is thought to contain 

 iron, especially since in the springs near-by there is 

 found a considerable ochre-like deposit ; so this ap- 

 pears to be similar to the bell-stone mentioned by 

 Linnaeus in the Westgothische Reise.* The last two or 

 three days the weather among these hills was uncom- 

 monly hot. On the road from Reading to Lebanon, 

 at Red-house Tavern, a new well had been dug. They 

 found no water until at a depth of 40 ft. The upper 

 stratum was several feet of the common sandy-clay 

 soil ; then, coarse sand and gravel for 18 feet, inter- 

 mixed with iron-bearing stones. Next was limestone 

 in fragments, and farther down limestone in beds. 



We crossed Tulpehacken Creek, and passed through 

 a part of the Tulpehacken valley, an especially fine and 

 fertile landscape along that small stream. The in- 

 habitants are well to-do and almost all of them Ger- 

 mans ; for long since the Germans have been looking 

 out for the best and most fertile lands. Everywhere 

 here the limestone protruded from the ground, show- 

 ing in bulky lines from northwest to southeast, also 



* Saxum clangosum; Saxum tinnitans ; Bell-stone. " Set up 

 " it sounded like a metal. It was blackish-grey, showed a little 

 " iron, consisted of mica so finely flecked with quartz as hardly 

 " to be seen with the naked eye ; these stones contained besides 

 " many opaque granates." Linnaeus, Westgoth. Reise, under 

 June 28. 



