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it is high to the west ; farther south it is east of north. The high hills 

 to the south are made of it. This range terminates against the Deering 

 Montalban series. 



In Weare the principal range is embraced between two areas of Lake 

 gneiss. Near the north line of the town a large hill contains mica schist 

 dipping N. 60° E., perhaps making an anticlinal with those in Henniker, 

 just named. In the west part of Weare there are numerous outcrops of 

 ferruginous and mica schists dipping north-westerly, as two miles north 

 of Clinton Grove, and a mile west. Mt. Misery and Odiorne hill are 

 composed of this rock, and perhaps a part of Wallingford mountain. The 

 top of Mt. Misery dips north-west. Just over the soapstone fibrolite 

 layers may be seen. The soapstone lies on the south-east slope, and is 

 about sixty feet wide. It has been opened extensively by Hon. M. A. 

 Hodgdon. It is of the same character with that in Francestown, and 

 perhaps on the same line of outcrop. Both are characterized by massive- 

 ness, arising from the uniform dissemination of crystalline radiated bunches 

 of talc through the rock. Minute bits of pyrrhotite occur occasionally, 

 but they do not seem to injure the stone for use in the manufacture of 

 stoves. Two horses, or large masses of hard rock, occupy a considerable 

 portion of the breadth of the bed ; but they may disappear, as the rock is 

 quarried deeper into the hill. There is arsenopyrite here also, with 

 asbestus and crystals of feldspar. Portions of the wall rock are horn- 

 blendic. At the south base of the mountain is a westerly dip, and the 

 rocks on the slope are both ferruginous and fibrolitic. Ferruginous 

 ledges appear with westerly dips at W. H. Hutchins's saw- and grist-mill, 

 north of J. M. Waldo's, and at the school-house by the cross-roads at D. 

 White's, dipping 50° N. 65° W. Between this point and L. Locke's all 

 the ledges are ferruginous. This is a particular band extending into 

 Francestown from Mt. Misery, just north-west of the soapstone. Its 

 place would seem to be near the school-house just named, where a little 

 of the same rock has been found. The fact of three localities of this 

 rock along a line just bordering the ferruginous band should be remem- 

 bered in further explorations. At the town farm in Weare the ferrugi- 

 nous schists dip 50° N. W., and also in the east part of Deering, inter- 

 stratificd with hard schist. The formation extends to the Lake gneiss. 

 The Francestown soapstone is one of the most important beds of this 



