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gay deceiver. One Smith, digging a well in this town, 

 found a lump of what he supposed to be gold, and placed 

 it on the mantle in his house. One day a stranger called 

 and asked for a drink of cider. While Mr. Smith was 

 absent in the cellar drawing the beverage, the visitor de- 

 parted, taking the tempting mineral with him. A circle 

 drawn with chalk on the floor showed where he had last 

 stood. It is needless to suggest who the stranger was 

 held to be. 



In 1861, Rev. Stillman Barden reinforced the ranks of 

 the Institute workers in the field we are now considering, 

 and until his death contributed generously by voice and 

 gifts of specimens to elucidate the geology of the county. 

 Called to live at Rockport, he was the first to develop the 

 mineral treasures of that place. 



At field meetings held there in August, 1862, and 

 August, 1863, he won the cordial praise of Dr. Chas. T. 

 Jackson, Mr. Francis Alger and Prof. Alpheus Hyatt for 

 his enthusiastic and intelligent labors in that interesting 

 field ; thereby the attention of trained scientists was 

 drawn to the locality, and two new species discovered, 

 besides the more accurate definition given to those al- 

 ready known. 



In July, 1867, at a field meeting held in Andover, 

 Prof. C. H. Hitchcock made an address chiefly in expla- 

 nation of the kames or glacial ridges in that town and 

 section. The study of these formations has since been 

 ably pursued by Rev. George F. Wright, lately of An- 

 dover, now of Oberlin, Ohio, and two communications 

 'made by him to this society have been published in pam- 

 phlet form. ' This has been the first thorough, systematic 

 work done by an amateur. That it has won the recogni- 

 tion and hearty approval of professionals has been simple 

 justice, for no trained scientist could have more fully met 



