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unpronounceable Indian 'names to certain English named trustees, 

 dated in 1684, was an object of special interest; the grantors hail of 

 Natick, in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. 



The old Bank building was examined by many of the party, who 

 were interested in the peculiar architecture and decorations of an 

 aristocratic residence of a century ago ; even the paper on the walls 

 was imported from England. This structure is supposed to have 

 been built in 1768, for Col. Jeremiah Lee, and, like the Sparhawk and 

 Pepperrell houses at Kittery, is a fine specimen of the palatial man- 

 sions of the nabobs of the last century. The venerable cashier, JOHN 

 SPARHAWK, Esq., who occupies a portion of the building, very kindly 

 received the company and politely permitted them to inspect the 

 premises. 



The old Burying Hill, and indeed many other places of interest, 

 were not forgotten or neglected by the Institute party. 



At one o'clock all gathered at the Town Hall, where a pic-nic colla- 

 tion, arranged from the baskets by a committee of ladies, was quickly 

 transferred from the tables to the hungry mouths of the rovers. 



From the Town Hall went all to the Universalist Church, where the 

 customary meeting for reports and disscussions was called to order by 

 the PRESIDENT at half past two o'clock. The records of the last 

 meeting and the correspondence were read by the SECRETARY. Do- 

 nations to the library were announced by Mr. ALPHEUS HYATT, and 

 donations to the cabinet by Mr. F. W. PUTNAM. 



After a brief allusion to a former Field Meeting of the Institute held 

 at this place ten years ago, and to the part which a former pastor of 

 this church, Rev. Stillman Barden,* had taken in the proceedings 

 at that time, the PRESIDENT invited Mr. JAMES J. H. GREGORY of 

 Marblehead, as one well versed in the geology of the region, to im- 

 part to the audience the information he had acquired. In response, 

 Mr. Gregory gave a very clear and interesting description of the geol- 

 ogy of the town. It is for the most part composed of sienite and 

 greenstone, cut by veins of trap. At the north part of the town the 

 greenstone cuts the sieuite ; at the south they blend. At the lower 

 part of the town is a rose-quartz, which would make excellent build- 

 ing material. At Burlington, Vt., he had seen a church built of alter- 

 nate blocks of quartz and limestone, and the effect produced was very 

 pleasing. The solution of the question as to the probable method by 

 which the trap was formed, was contained in a single vein of trap in 



* Rev. Mr. BAKDEN was an active member of the Institute, a frequent attendant 

 upon these meetings, and a zealous mineralogist and geologist. He died at Hock- 

 port, August 7, 1865, to which place he removed in August, 1861. A memoir of 

 Mr. Barden by Rev. Mrs. P. A. HANAFOKD is printed in the seventh volume 

 of the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute. 



