HEIGHTS. 



159 



Foot of Great Falls, Milton, 160 



Plain between Milton Falls and Checkerberry village, Milton, 302 



Snake Hill, Milton, 912 



Road at Sanderson's, southwest part of Snake Hill, . . 398 



Essex village, 452 



" Oven," Monkton, Z. T., 756 



Locality of shells, Montreal, L. C., 540 



Vergennes, .......... 225 



Williston, . 402 



Richmond, 332 



Waterbury, 425 



Middlesex, near a clay terrace, 520 



Montpelier (Capitol), near the foot of a thick bed of blue clay, 540 



Northfield (Depot) 724 



Cambridge, 410 



Johnson, 460 



Hardwick Hollow, 720 



Clay beds in Memphremagog valley, 778 



Foot of 20 miles Rapids, Barnet, 486 



Head of do. in Lunenburg, 822 



St. Johnsbury, 585 



Braintree, 732 



West Randolph, 678 



Royalton, 476 



White River Junction, 335 



Hartford, near Woodstock station, .... about 500 



Woodstock, 400 



Brattleboro, 160 



Xewbury, 410 



Bennington, 432 



Manchester, 650 



Rutland, 500 



Castleton, 475 



South Troy, 740 



Locality of shells, Swanton, 140 



Hill east of Middlebury, 434 



Addison Center, ........ 445 



Elgin Spring, Panton, 320 



West side of Buck Mountain, Waltham 383 



West Haven, near Whitehall, 100 



" Finest locality of shells in Chittenden Co." 

 4th terrace of La Moille River, (south side.) 

 An insulated peak above the clays. 



Above the clays. 



At the same height with a bed of blue clay 



$ mile east. 



On Montreal Mountain. 

 Upon the brown clay. 

 Upon sand. 



In the Winooski valley. 

 In the Winooski valley. 

 In the Winooski valley. 

 In the Winooski valley. 



In the La Moille valley. 



In the La Moille valley. 



In the La Moille valley. 



No clay found higher than this. 



Upon Connecticut River. 



On Passumpsic River. 



On White River. 



On White River. 



On White River. 



On White and Connecticut Rivers. 



A bed of blue clay. 



On Otta Quechee River, at the terminal 



moraine of an extinct glacier. 

 On Connecticut River. 

 Clay bed. 



On Waloomsac River. 

 On Battenkill River. 

 On Otter Creek. 

 On Castleton River. 

 On Missisco River. 

 Near Charles Bollard's house. 

 Composed of brown clay. 

 Brown clay. 



Locality of marine shells. 

 Brown clay. 

 Reddish clay without fossils. 



This table might have been much more extended were it necessary. We hope to give 

 a table of all the heights that we have ascertained in the State in another place, and any 

 who wish to pursue the subjects touched upon by this list can consult that table. The 

 objects of the one before us are these : First, to determine the highest elevation at which 

 fossil shells have been observed. We see that in Vermont no one has gathered them at a 

 greater height than 325 feet above the ocean, while near the ocean in the St. Lawrence 

 valley, they have been collected at a height of 520 feet. Secondly, to determine the great- 

 est elevation of any of these deposits of clay in the Champlain valley. The clays are found 



