242, Miscellaneous sVotices it Mineralogy, Geology, Se. 
river, which unite a short distance above the south bounda~ 
ry of the town of Reading. This precipice is about sixty 
rods North-west of the house of Mr. John Gray, and about 
me te rods West of Mr. Seth Andrus’ house. .The 
h of Saugatuck river runs a winding course 
ina i aaedin direction at the foot of the hill, on the top of 
which are the rocks under consideration? At the passage of 
the river in this place are erected on the east side, a carding 
, and on the west, a saw-mill, not laid down on the 
map c of the State. Thirty rods west ‘of these two buildings | 
on ‘the west side of the stream, I found the garnets to be 
ost abundant 
The hill on which are the rocks and precipices, is per- 
haps sixty or seventy feet high, and of very steep ascent. 
On the top of the hill, the rocks are situated, and at the base 
of these rocks on the South-east side, the garnets will be 
seen by the most inattentive rena projecting from the 
rock : musket balls, shot half way 
into a board. ‘These rocks are ee eee with trees of 
tlanmamnibas' tie’ North and West of * Garnet Rock” for 
more than a hundred rods, while on the South and South- 
east, an extensive, uncultivated plain is presented to the eye, 
‘so that an observer acquainted with the description of this 
_ spot, would be able to tell here it Mone when ne was at @ 
Sere #8 of some miles. 
: curiosities. 
T have been thus particular in my descripdon of the local 
boundaries of e ‘ Garnet Rock,” so that ‘whoever needs it, may 
be ai d toevery scien- 
tific visitor, aes in proportion to the interest he feels in 
the progress of geological, ar d mineralogical knowledge. 
