~ ‘es : 
Dewey on Geology of Williamstown, &c. 337 
watering-places, or grazing on the plains. The inhabited parts 
of the country present a Wipepect still more pleasing: around 
the margin of those extensive rich prairies, numerous habita- 
tions are seen, withdrawn a short distance in the wood, from 
the winter’s cold and summer’s heat—their finely cultivated 
fields lie in the prairies, which yield at once to the plough, 
without. the previous Herculean labor of demolishing the 
. forest. The area between the farms is a common of pasture to 
the numerous herds during the spring, summer, and autumn, 
and a small part mowed affords hay for the winter. The 
farmer who takes up his habitation in the neighbourhood of 
the prairies, has ‘many of the advantages of an old inhabited 
country, and all the advantages of the new. 
Ann, Ill. Sketch of the Mineralogy and Geology of the Vicinity of 
Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. By Proresson Dewey, 
of Williams College, in a letter to the Editor. 
Tur following sketch includes a space extending from Hoo- 
sack mountain on the east, to the State of New York on the 
West and a small distance into Vermont on the north. The 
accompanying map shows the relative situation of the streams, 
and the principal bills and mountains. The map is an enlarged 
copy of Carleton’s map of this part of the state, with one or 
two corrections; which truth required. The latitude and lon- 
gitude are probably not perfectly accurate. 
Williams College is situated in a valley, having on the west 
the hills of the Taconick* range; on the east, Saddle Mountain, 
which separates it for the most part from Adams; and on the 
north, and northeast, two hills which belong to the southwest- 
ern part of the range of the Green Mountains. Hoosack River, 
rising several miles at the southeast, and passing through the 
northeastern part of Williamstown, winds its course northwest 
to the Hudson. It is an inconsiderable stream, about six rods 
* Former orthography, Toghconnuck and Toghconnuc. That of the text 
deviates farther from the Indian, but is later and preferable. 
