stones against each other. The color was like the color 

 of those Mrs. Roosevelt had cut to match her Alice blue 

 dress, which she wore at the Inaugural Ball. 



The forms that minerals take in crystalizing are inter- 

 esting because of the statement that all geometrical figures 

 were taken from them. Thus muscovite gives us the square, 

 the diamond shape, the triangle, the parallelogram, the 

 hexagon, the heptagon and even the octagon. I have a 

 seven-sided figure with shining mica for the center and 

 a perfect rim or frame of the blue lithia mica. The circular 

 mica is interesting because of the sockets left after taking 

 pieces out. 



Not far from the Hotel we found large iron garnets 

 inbedded in a very hard granite. The granites of this locality 

 are of five different colors, some suitable for monumental 

 work, taking a fine polish. 



In West Poland, where a well had recently been dug, 

 I found brown tourmalines. There was every evidence that 

 a pocket had been found and the crystals either thrown back 

 into the well or carried away. The soft, black tourmalines 

 are very abundant on White Oak Hill and in Casco; the 

 hard crystals being found in only one place as yet. In West 

 Poland I found some yellow ochre of very good quality and 

 painted a little box with it, simply mixing the pounded clayey 

 stone with oil. 



An iron mine at Webb's Mills tests a high per cent of 

 iron and will be profitable when transportation facilities 

 can be provided. At the present time distance to the nearest 

 railroad station takes off all profit. Sulphur of a very fine 

 grade occurs here, the richest deposit, unfortunately, lying 

 under a building. 



Within a radius of three miles of Casco Village I have 

 found a variety of minerals; iron pyrites in large-sized cubes, 

 muscovite or mica of such quality and size that I put a piece 

 in my stove for a window and after using it for a year it 

 still remains hard and clear, rose quartz, bright green 

 pyroxine with brownish-red garnets (this is one of the 

 prettiest specimens yet found,) and calcite with a very bril- 

 liant cleavage. 



On the beach of Pleasant Pond the sand was so highly 

 colored red one morning that we thought sometTiing unusual 

 had happened, but upon closer inspection we found that the 

 sand was filled with pretty little garnets. When we went 

 back a few days later for samples to be used in filling sou- 

 venir bottles, the garnets had all disappeared, having been 

 washed back into deeper water. 



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