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BINGHAM'S ROCK. 



Rock is 35 feet long, 25 feet high, and 21 feet broad, with spruce trees growing upon it 50 

 feet high. The east end of the rock, as seen from the north, is represented on Fig. 22 

 with a darker shading ; and at its base a smaller bowlder leans against it. The diagonal 

 lines represent the strata ; the dark ones show projecting edges. On the top there is soil 

 to support the vegetation upon it." 



Fio. 22. 



Bingham's Rock, in the Smuggler's Notch. Stowe, Vt. 



A little farther north than the above bowlder, is another which Mr. Hager calls C. Allen 

 Brown's Rock. " It is five rods long, 25 feet high, and about 30 feet wide, and on the top 

 of it are trees a foot in diameter. These blocks lie on the top of the ground and are 

 isolated bowlders, which probably fell from the adjacent cliffs that rise upon either side 

 to the height of 300 to 2000 feet." 



Bingham's rock must weigh nearly 2600 tons, and Brown's rock 8300 tons. This last 

 weighs more than the Green Mountain Giant. But as it is not probably a traveled 

 bowlder, except to obey the laws of gravity in falling from the cliff, it can hardly be put 

 into competition with the Giant. 



We have already referred to the extraordinary display of bowlders in the west part of 

 Stamford. We might add that along the west side of the Green Mountains, more especially 

 towards their base, and in connection with the ranges of quartz, will be found surprising 

 accumulations of bowlders on a strip at least one or two miles wide. Many of these appear 

 to have become subject to a powerful action subsequent to the original movement that first 

 tore them up and sent them southerly. The same is true of the accumulations in the 

 northeast part of the State, which we have marked on the map as drift. At the lower 

 levels in that region, they are decidedly modified drift. It is not easy indeed to say 

 precisely where the line should be drawn between them, since both have been produced 

 probably by the modified action of the same causes. 



