396 EOLIAN LIMESTONE. 



The position and parallelism of the Eolian limestone in Vermont are remarkable and 

 difficult. But we reserve our remarks on these points, as well as upon its metamorphism, 

 till we have presented the usual details representing the formation, drawn up by c. H. H. 



SYNONYMS. 



GRANULAR LIMESTONE : Professor Chester Dewey's Geological Map of a part of Mas- 

 sachusetts, etc. ; American Journal of Science and Arts, I. Series, Vol. VIII, 1824. 



BERKSHIRE LIMESTONE : Geological Report of Massachusetts, 1832 and 1834 ; by Prof. 

 Edward Hitchcock. 

 STOCKBRIDGE LIMESTONE : Prof. E. Emmons 1 works upon the Taconic System, 1 838-1860. 



METAMORPHIC LIMESTONES OF THE LOWER SILURIAN: Geology of the First District 

 of New York; by W. W. Mather; 1843. 



STOCKBRIDGE LIMESTONE : Reports on the Geology of Vermont ; by Prof. C. B. Adams, 

 1845-1848. 



METAMORPHIC TRENTON LIMESTONES : T. S. Hunt, quoting from Sir W. E. Logan, 

 American Journal Science and Arts, II. Series, Vol. IX, p. 19. 



STOCKBRIDGE LIMESTONE : Appendix to Thompson's Vermont ; by Zadock Thompson; 1853. 



DORSET LIMESTONE : Elementary Geology ; by E. Hitchcock and C. II. Hitchcock ; 1860, 

 page 411. 

 EOLIAN LIMESTONE: The present Report. 



Lithological Characters. 



There is more variety in the limestones of this group than in almost any other forma- 

 tion in the State. Yet the variations are mostly slight in themselves chemically, but 

 considerable as far as external appearance is concerned. We shall not attempt to give all 

 the particulars under this head, but after stating the general characters would refer to the 

 fourth topic, and to the descriptions of the general sections for particulars. 



names, derived from some trivial circumstance, are not only devoid of all good taste, but convey only low or ridiculous ideas. Of this 

 class are such names as Bull Mountain, Cow Mountain (of which there are three in the State), Mt. John, Mt. Tom, Bone Mountain, Tug 

 Mountain, Hog Back Mountain, Snake Mountain, Cobble Mountain, Rattlesnake Mountain, Potato Hill (two at least), Swearing Hill, 

 Joe's Hill, Devil Hill, Mutton Hill, and Camel's Kump or Hump. Which of these names would not spoil the best poetry ever written 1 

 Nor can they be used by any community without lowering its standard of taste. 



Is not here, then, an important work for the literary part of the citizens of the State, especially its Colleges'? Can they not, by pro- 

 posing good names for the unnamed or badly named mountains, induce the public to use them 1 At present, very few have names 

 against which good taste does not reluctate. The most numerous class are those which bear the names of the towns in which they are 

 situated. But these are mere geographical designations, and ought not to be regarded as names at all. Another class bear the names 

 of individual men. These are better ; but, after all, few of us have names that are fit to be placed upon a mountain. Certainly neither 

 John, nor Joe, nor Tom, nor Tobey, are appropriate. 



In regard to some of these names, which are objectionable on account of their low associations, it would obviate the difficulty to trans- 

 late them into Greek or Latin. Thus, how much better would Mt. Ophis (the Greek for snake), sound than Snake Mountain. What an 

 improvement upon Rattlesnake' Mountain would it be, to call it Mt. Crotaltu (the Latin name for this snake !) What a mighty gain, I 

 may add, would it be, to substitute Mt. Leo for Camel's Rump ; which Latin name for lion is suggested by the resemblance of this moun- 

 tain to a crouching lion. So, Mt. Cervus (a deer) might take the place of Buck Mountain, and Mt. Taurus (the bull) that of Bull 

 Mountain. Mt. Albus (white) might well replace the Black Mountain of Dnmmerston (there is another, we believe, hi the State), which, 

 strange to say, is composed of white granite, showing itself conspicuously ; and by what absurd freak of fancy it was called black, and 

 still retains that name, we can explain only by the rule of contraries, 



