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vantage, and the terraces are exceptionally fine south and west of 

 Northampton, and at Florence. 



An excursion may be taken by carriage five miles east of Am- 

 herst for the study of perfectly preserved high-level glacial lake 

 beds and a grand serpent kame. The Pelham "asbestos mine" — 

 an olivine-enstatite core with a contact margin containing asbestos, 

 anorthite, biotite-corundum and many other minerals — can be 

 seen. 



