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SURFACE GEOLOGY. 



near by, so that it has very likely been brought here from the valley north, and trans- 

 ported up hill, 200 feet of vertical height. 



In Hanover, upon the west flank of Moose mountain, east of E. Wright's, is a boul- 

 der of hornblende schist 22 feet long, 12 wide, 16 high, from which a considerable 

 piece has been separated by frost. It may have travelled less than a mile. A boulder 

 of Vermont granite, perhaps half the size of the foregoing, is said to have been taken 

 from the top of Moose mountain and made into monuments for the cemetery. On 

 Gen. Jackman's farm in Bath, there was, a few years since, a line of large Huronian 

 boulders averaging 12 feet through, arranged like a lateral moraine. The first cucum- 

 bers seen in Bath were raised upon the top of one of them. Near Jones pond in Ray- 

 mond is a boulder of twisted gneiss 30 feet long, 25 feet wide, 22 feet high at one end, 

 tapering to 8 at the other. In this neighborhood, Raymond, Epping, Nottingham, 



Fig. 57. — Great Rock in Wentworth. 



similar large boulders are frequent. Those derived from Pawtuckaway are quite no- 

 ticeable for twenty miles to the south-east. Several large ones arc located upon Gov- 

 ernor Prescott's farm. South of the station at Raymond is a boulder of white quartz, 

 transported several hundred feet, 48 feet long, 39 wide, 24 high (30 feet at one end), 

 with two pine trees on top, one 16 inches in diameter near the base. This compares 

 favorably in size with some of the Nottingham examples. Near Brackett's station in 

 Stratham are two sienite boulders, each averaging twenty feet in three directions, that 

 have come two or three miles. Near Bronson's house in Landaff are boulders of 

 conglomerate 30 feet in each of the three dimensions. They probably camS from 

 some undiscovered layer not far distant. 



