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the bank of the Scantic river, nor at its mouth on the 

 north side, except such as have been brought or thrown 

 thfre from the south shore ; neither is there any on the 

 opposite shore of the Connecticut river. 



It may be observed here, that where a current is of 

 sufficient force to move the pebbles on the bed of a 

 river or creek, so as to carry them down the stream to 

 its month, and discharge them into a larger stream or 

 ri\er, it would be very natural at least, to expect to 

 find them below the mouth of the auxiliary stream, and 

 not above it. 



This is undoubtedly correct ; but, in the present in- 

 stance, 1 have remarked that the Scantic river enters 

 the Connecticut river nearly at right angles; conse- 

 quently, when the current of this river was sufficient 

 to carry the pebbles down the stream, they would be 

 thrown into the Connecticut river, at some distance, 

 and that corresponding with the angle which the Scan- 

 tic river makes with the Connecticut river, inclining, 

 however, a little down the stream of the latter. 



In this case, an abundance of pebbles would be 

 found at the mouth of "the Scantic: but it is not so. 

 It is perhaps three hundred yards distant below its 

 mouth, before the pebbles on the beach commence; 

 and they continue to cover the shore for half or three 

 quarters of a mile below ; having the appearence of be- 

 ing raised from the bed of the Scantic, and carried ob- 

 liquely or diagonally across in a south west direction, 

 and deposited in a bank, that is perfectly alluvial, on 

 the margin of the Connecticut river, because checked 



