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removed only by the powerful influence of a summer's 

 sun. When this was accomplished in the following 

 season, large pieces of rocks and heaps of rolled 

 pebbles were left exposed to view on an alluvial sur- 

 face, on which, before, a stone could not be found for 

 its weight in gold. These rocks and stones from their 

 characters, were known to be the same as those which 

 composed the bed of the river many leagues above. 



Those masses of granite mentioned by Mr. DraJce^ 

 have been a subject of wonder and surprise with 

 many, and, in this instance, well may they excite a 

 degree of curiosity : not because we see masses of 

 primitive rocks entirely out of place, as in alluvial 

 formations ; or at a great distance from where they 

 were probably formed. This is by no means an un- 

 common occurrence* We see them in various parts of 

 the United States 5* numerous instances of the kind 



* But a few years since, in digging away, and levelling the road 

 in the town of Windsor, in Connecticut, and at the distance of 

 nine miles from Hartford, a part of a rock was uncovered, which, 

 from its apparent size, it was found necessary to remove. This 

 was accomplished, and it still remains in the highway. It is of 

 granite of an unusual kind : the quartz and felspar are in fine 

 grains, with a proportion of black hornhlend ; the whole intermixed 

 with small irregular and isolated masses of black mica. Its weight 

 may be one ton, or a ton and a half. Its form is more singular, 

 perhaps than its composition, being of two irregular masses joined 

 by a kind of neck, the curve of which has the appearance of having 

 been hollowed out on two sides by the operations of running 



waters, giving it the shape and resemblance of what are considered 



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