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the melting of the ice. Thus we can 

 understand how it is that the scattered 

 boulders are apt to be of entirely differ- 

 ent material from the bed rock underly- 

 ing them, and how the boulders are 

 sometimes perched in apparently inse- 

 cure positions. 



Some of the boulders are sufficiently 

 large and conspicuous to have attracted 

 general attention and to have received 

 special names. Fig. 6 represents an in- 

 teresting boulder on West Rock, near 

 New Haven, known as the Judges' 

 Cave, from a tradition that Edward 

 Whalley and William Goft'e, two of the 

 members of the English Parliament 

 who signed the death warrant of King 

 Charles I., found shelter here from 

 their pursuers. The separate blocks 

 which now form the so-called Cave, or 

 rather rock shelter, are all probably 

 fragments of one huge boulder which 

 has been shivered by frost since it found 

 its resting place. The party represented 

 in our picture are a group of professors 

 and students who were visiting the 

 locality on a geological excursion. Fig. 

 7 shows one of the largest boulders 

 which I have ever seen in Connecticut. 



The locality is west of the village of 

 Southington, near where the road crosses 

 Eight Mile River. Fi.g. 8 represents 

 a rather picturesque boulder in the 

 southeastern part of Middletown, local- 

 ly known as Bible Rock. The appear- 

 ance of a half-opened book is due to the 

 fact that the boulder of gneiss hap- 

 pened to be lodged with its planes of 

 foliation nearly vertical, and frost work 

 has spread the leaves of the book apart. 



Figs. I, 2, 3 and 4 show a group of 

 picturesque boulders on the estate of the 

 late ^Ir. James Terry, Burlington, Con- 

 necticut. The beautiful photographs 

 from which these pictures were made 

 were a gift to the writer from Mr. Terry. 

 Fig. 10 shows rather oddly perched boul- 

 der near Cobalt, Connecticut. Fig. 11 

 shows an interesting' boulder near the 

 home of ]\Ir. ^Mitchell Kennerley, Mamar- 

 oneck. New York. 



Prof. W. O. Crosby, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, has 

 shown that Cochegan Rock is not a 

 boulder at all. It is simply a portion of 

 the underlying rock which has resisted 

 the erosive agencies that have carried 

 away the surrounding part of the mass. 



IG. 11. BOULDER, MAM ARO.XECK. (WITJI THE EL)]T()R Ol' THIS MAGAZIXEh NEW YORK. 



