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pentine enough to go around. Aside 

 from the minerals, this locality is of 

 geological interest as it is a good typi- 

 cal example of serpentine as an altered 

 intrusive mass among gneiss rocks. 



A Few More Incidents. 



KY WILLIAM C. BANKS, STAMFORD, CON- 

 NECTICUT. 



Our particular passion is not always 

 appreciated by others, but I do think 

 one of my friends took a rather unfair 

 way of making me move on one day. 

 When I much preferred to stop and 

 search for garnets. We, that is, myself 

 and two others, had been on a walk up 

 to North Stamford to see the water 

 company's new dam, where we found 

 certain geological features which I 

 may describe later. On the way home, 

 we passed a locality where good-sized 

 garnets occur, and two of us began 

 searching for them, much to the disgust 

 of our friend, who was, I dare say, 

 tired. Now, in this neighborhood, are 

 two sanitariums, where the mentally 

 afflicted are cared for, and this fur- 

 nished the ammunition he used on us. 

 After entreating, exhorting and wax- 

 ing sarcastic all to no purpose, as a 

 party of strangers was passing, he 

 walked up to us with an air of authority 

 and said, "Come, this won't do, you 

 know Dr. G. said I was to bring you 

 back by two o'clock?" and then he 

 viewed our wrath and disgust with an 

 unholy glee. We moved. So, you see, 

 some at least of those we meet class us 

 with infants, imbeciles and other irre- 

 sponsible folk. But so long as we get 

 our share of sunlight, fresh air, pretty 

 scenery and minerals, we can disregard 

 the carping of the unregenerate. 



Grantham, New Hampshire, Minerals. 



Grantham, New Hampshire. 



To the Editor : 



Several weeks ago I received a copy 

 of The Guide to Nature and read it 

 with increasing interest and pleasure. 

 I am interested in one department of 

 which it treats, geology, especially so 

 in mineralogy. 



I have found and collected in this 

 town, Grantham, many beautiful quartz 



crystals. Some of these crystals are 

 part green and the other part of the 

 same crystals nearly transparent as 

 glass. 



There are ledges in this town so full 

 of garnets that one cannot step with- 

 out treading on them. Many of these 

 garnets have become so weather- 

 worn and broken they can be scraped 

 up by handfuls. 



In some parts of the town fine speci- 

 mens of staurolite are found. Dana 

 speaks of them as remarkably good. 



Near the centre of the town, and run- 

 ning in a northerly direction, there is 

 a ledge, from thirty to fifty feet in 

 height and several rods long. This 

 ledge is mostly agate with thin layers 

 of chalcedony, and in places in the 

 form of burls which, if polished, would 

 make beautiful specimens. The agate 

 is of several colors, and when polished 

 these are indeed beautiful specimens, 

 as the writer knows for he has several 

 in his cabinet. I have also picked up 

 in some of the roads here fine speci- 

 mens of jasper. 



In several places on some of the hills 

 in town, striae may be seen on the 

 ledges — evidence of the drift or ice 

 period. These marks or grooves are 

 more numerous on some of the ledges 

 in the neighboring town oi Springfield, 

 and are quite large and deep and may 

 be seen at quite a distance from them. 

 Some of the ledges in that town, also 

 are full of fibrolite, and many quite 

 large slabs of it have been carried away 

 for ornamental purposes. 



Recently the writer helped a friend 

 blast a rock out of a ditch he was dig- 

 ging. The rock, or more correctly 

 ledge, was two or three feet below the 

 surface of the ground, and we were sur- 

 prised at the discovery made. I mail 

 under separate cover a few specimens 

 of it. I call it radiated hornblend. Am 

 I mistaken? Please let me know. The 

 specimens are not large but good, and 

 I think quite pretty. 



Yours truly, 

 Rev. George A. Tyrrel. 



(Editor. — You are right. The min- 

 eral sent was radiated hornblend.) 



