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AN INTERESTING BowLpDER. 
By Wm. A. McBetu. 
On the lawn in front of the residence of Thomas B. Miller, one-half 
mile north of New Richmond, Montgomery County, Indiana, stands the 
very interesting bowlder, a cut of whith is given herewith. It is nearly 
five feet in length, and from two to three feet in diameter. It is roughly 
cylindrical in shape, and so white as to give most people who see it the 
impression that it has recently received a copious coating of whitewash. 
A closer examination shows a curious and beautiful structure, which may 
be compared to that of an immense stick of white taffy, strands of which 
had been drawn out into small ropes, braided, twisted and then doubled 
or folded, given a final pull and allowed to cool. 
A small fragment analyzed at the chemical laboratory of Rose Poly- 
technic Institute, Terre Haute, Indiana, by Mr. J. W. Shepherd, was pro- 
nounced foliated serpentine. It was found in excavating the cellar of the 
residence, in front of which it stands. A smaller bowlder of the same 
material, and no doubt a fragment of the larger one, was found near it in 
the excavation. 
The location in on the ridge of the Darlington-Independence Kame 
Moraine and near the parallel bowlder train mentioned in the article on ~ 
the Physical Geography of the Great Bend of the Wabash. Its presence, 
in the region where found, may be explained in the same way that the 
presence of the thousands of others may be explained, but its composition 
and structure mark it as so uncommon that its source would throw much 
light upon the direction and distance of movement of the drift in the re- 
gion where it was found. It is hoped that this description may meet the 
eye of some person who can give information as to its probable source. 
