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subject to mere mechanical or aqueous attrition. Hence we suppose it to have been lifted 

 up bodily and transported not rolled along with other fragments by a visa 1 ergo. The 

 sketch below will give some idea of one of the sides of this bowlder An end view is 

 quite different, It is situated in the midst of a forest and a little southeast of and below 

 the crest of the hill. 



Fio. 21. 



The Green Mountain Giant. 3500 tons, 41 feet long. 



Until a larger bowlder shall be found, we propose for this one the name of Green 

 Mountain Giant. It is the largest we have met with in New England, save one at Fall 

 River which is now destroyed for architectural purposes. The Giant should have a 

 ladder attached to it, and the forest around it be cleared away, that persons of taste might 

 be induced to visit it. Such objects are beginning to be incorporated into the world's 

 literature, and we already have at least one volume entitled "The Bowlder," as well as 

 Hugh Miller's Autobiography of a bowlder. Ere many years we predict that the Guide 

 Books for summer tourists will describe the route to the Giant. When that shall happen 

 we would recommend that those who visit it should extend their tour on the road from 

 Whitingham to Hartwellville in Readsboro, to where it crosses Deerfield river at 

 Readsboro Hollow, where they will find the bowlders very -numerous and large. Under 

 the bridge across Deerfield river lies one 25 feet long and 15 feet high, which weighs 478 

 tons, about equal to the largest in Great Britain. At a bridge over the west branch of 

 Deerfield river beyond Readsborough Hollow, another bowlder may be seen of almost 

 equal dimensions, as well as two or three others occupying a picturesque position in the 

 village. If the west branch of Deerfield river be followed up towards Hartwellville, a 

 succession of cataracts will, be found for nearly five miles, and a great number of bowlders 

 be seen uncovered of every size, which the drift agency has thrown down on this eastern 

 slope of the Green mountains, and the river has developed. 



In A. D. Hager's notes we find a sketch and description of an enormous bowlder, named 

 by him Bingham's Rock, in the Smuggler's Notch at Stowe. He says that " Bingham's 



