170 MARL BEDS. 



it is the same as one described by Mr. Hall as belonging to the Messrs. Kinsman. That is represented as 

 an "immense deposit, the largest in the State not covered by water, and adequate to supply lime to the 

 surrounding region for many centuries." In Williamstown the facilities for the formation of marl seem to 

 have been unusually favorable. 



In Barre, in the south part of the town. 



In Ryegate. 



In Groton, probably in the vicinity of the ponds. 



Considerable quantities of marl are found in several places in Barnet. 



Several valuable and extensive deposits of marl are found in Peacham. That on the farm of Mr. Johnson 

 is found below a thick bed of peat, and is nine feet thick, of the first quality. Another large deposit is in 

 Lacld's Pond ; and smaller deposits occur elsewhere. 



Marl is found in Marshfield. 



Another bed is found near the village of Calais. Another is in the west part of the town, and a third 

 near Woodbury line at a pond. 



There are two beds in Woodbury, upon the borders of ponds. 



There is a bed of marl in the east part of Cabot. 



Marl is found in several ponds in Danville. In Keyser's Pond the quantity is large ; and in the east 

 part of the town lime has been manufactured from another bed. 



There are two beds, at least, in St. Johnsbury. One of them is on the farm of Hon. E. Paddock, which 

 is quite large. 



In.Walden, two or more beds. One of them is on the borders of Lyford's Pond, where the amount is 

 almost inexhaustible. 



In Hard wick, a very valuable deposit of marl occurs on the farm of Rev. J. Underwood, and another on 

 the farm of Mr. W. Bailey. 



In Greensboro there is a bed of marl, of good quality but not very extensive, on the farm of Mr. Field. 



In Glover, there is a large deposit of marl in the bed of Mud Pond, which was drained in 1810, when the 

 famous pond above run away to Lake Memphremagog. A second is upon Parker's Pond, and a third in the 

 east part of the town. 



In Craftsbury, inexhaustible amount of marl in Great Hosmer, Little Hosmer and Duck Ponds. 



In Albany, on the farm of Zuar Rowell, east of Great Hosmer Pond, is a very valuable bed of marl, 

 beneath 4 feet of peat. The marl varies from 4 to 8 feet thick, where examined, and covers from six to 

 ten acres. Both the peat and the marl are of excellent quality. The deposits are in what was anciently 

 a natural pond, enlarged by a beaver dam, now entirely filled up. On the land of Mr. G. W. Powers, in 

 the southeast part of the town, is a beaver meadow, upon which is a bed of peat 5 feet thick, covering five 

 or six acres; and beneath the peat is a bed of marl, resting upon gravel and blue clay. This marl is mixed 

 with clay in some places. Half a mile north of this, upon the land of Mr. Orne, thare is another bed 

 of marl, of fifteen or twenty acres area. The overlying peat is from 2 to 5, and the marl from 8 to 10 

 feet thick. The marl is of excellent quality, and is upon the borders of a pond. The pond may easily be 

 drained. It now covers but a few acres, and will eventually be entirely filled up by the agencies which 

 have already diminished it to a tenth part of its former size. In the northeast part of the town there is a 

 large beaver meadow, covering from one to two hundred acres, beneath which marl is supposed to exist. 



In Lyndon two beds, one in the north, the other in the south part of that town. 



Mr. J. E. Smith, of Provincetown, Mass., informs us that upon his father's farm in East Burke there 

 is a bed of Marl. 



In Sutton, north part. 



In Sheffield, north part. 



In Westmore, south of ,Willoughby Lake. 



In Barton, in the east part of the town. 



In the north corner of Brownington. 



There is an extensive bed of marl on the low lands in the north part of Coventry, near the entrance 

 of Barton River into Lake Memphremagog. 



