~ Geology, &c ce of the Connecticut. Ba 
: Wes River Mountain* ‘8 
gist for greenstone hillocks. It is nine hundred ada forty 
8 above the Consdetiout, and stands on its eastern bank, 
ectly opposite to the east village of Brattleborough. That 
village and the intervening river are the most interesting ob+ 
jects in the landscape that is seen from this mountain. One 
fancies himself almost able, by a single leap from the sum- 
mit, to throw himself into the*village. Almost every other 
part of ‘the landscape calibie a tumultuous sea of moun : 
mtain volcanic in Sortie — but obser 
— 
f the Is is fri 
quently indicat ted’ by a flame e which Aris es from the ground at night,’’? lam 
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Dr. Allen ; (Jour, ei. Nal. 3. p- 13) wi acoounta.| lor this ‘ 4 the falling 
of immense masses mense s of rock have oid 
not only from the ate % enitle er . refers, bat also from 
of in, no one will deny aad has visi aoe betes: hat 
e falli these wo ea **noise like thunder,’ which Id be 
h 
ni me prea pegenonic upon the base below. 
city is often as loud as a six pounder. 
as pt over ne Wee est ee Mountain a - years since, near the to 
rattle snake was announced ; or rather he a pete x msl by the th 
ing shake of his serie a a a eh had b been a companion of Wil- 
son the ornithologist in one of his pedestrian tours psn ugh the western wil- 
derness, ) mies dia ately Gaupaiohen the snake and found him to measure a- 
bove four feet in length. I mention this fi act because it is uncommon in 
per- 
haps one exception. I recollect however, meetingsome years agoa Man in 
Leverett, who was barefoot with sev eral rattle sna’ pan over his 
ders told me he hunting 
w had 
* On the fragments of rock at et ee scm apreline 
tichens | grows | the Stereocaulon paschale. ae 
Basie from which: they will oeobesly aa ae extirpated ;.a 
tied one is now before me measuring ees feet caged 4 length which 
‘killed last summer on the Woo odbridge greenstone greenstone ridge near New- 
Ml te March 6, 1823. 
