STEATITE. 541 



There is another of better properties and quality upon Hon. F. A. Wright's land, two or three miles northeast 

 of the principal village, but we have not examined it. 



One mile southeast of the village of Waitsfield there is a bed of steatite in talcose schist, upon Mrs. 

 Jocelyn's land. The schists have the strike of N. 30 E., and dip 80 E. At the junction of the schists 

 and steatite the strata are much contorted. On the east side, the steatite is tinged with decomposing 

 pyrites. The bed is ninety feet long and eight wide, running to a 

 point at each end. It is divided in the middle by a strip of 

 impure serpentine into two layers of steatite, the most easterly of 

 which is from three to six feet wide, and the other is from two to 

 three feet wide. 



There are two beds of steatite in the northwest corner of More- 

 town. One of them is near the Winooski River, and the other is 

 upon a hill a hundred rods or so south of it. The former is a very Steatite iu Moretown - 



small bed, but the steatite is of good quality. The one upon the hill belongs to Deavitt and Stowell. Fig. 

 289 represents a section of this bed. A, A, represents the steatite ; B, B, B, represents masses of chlorite ; and 



C, C, represents masses of serpentine. The steatite varies from six to fourteen feet in width. It lies between 

 nearly perpendicular beds of talcose schist, while its layers vary considerably. B, the cap rock of chlorite, 

 seems to be nearly horizontal, and its associated steatite rapidly changes to nearly perpendicular. The 

 serpentine is softer than usual. The steatite is mostly of slaty talc. It is entirely free from foreign miner- 

 als. It is unusuaally slaty, and hence would not be so valuable as masses from other quarries for large 

 slabs. The bottom of the quarry is 270 feet above Winooski River. 



There is a bed of steatite in the southeast corner of Duxbury, near the common corners of the four 

 towns of Duxbury, Moretown, Waitsfield and Fayston. 



There are three beds of steatite in Waterbury. Near Waterbury street there is one twelve feet wide 

 belonging to H. H. Pinneo. It is not very long. Its existence was unknown till recently, when the loose 

 soil concealing it was removed by a freshet. There is another bed nearly two miles north of Pinneo's, 

 upon the same stream, belonging to W. Eddy. It is from twelve to fifteen feet wide. At Barrett and 

 Gilman's ledge north of Waterbury Center, the rock runs N. 10 W., and dips 60-70 E. The bed is 

 from _ten to fifteen feet wide. There is still another bed of steatite in the north part of the town, upon 



D. Gray's land. Mr. Hager has noticed a bed either, of steatite or serpentine, upon the line between 

 Waterbury and Bolton, upon the top of a mountain, near I. D. Clark's house. 



There are two beds of steatite in Stow. One of them is mostly a compact kind of talcose schist, and 

 the other is not much better, judging from specimens of the rock. The former is near Waterbury line, 

 and the locality of the latter is three-fourths of a mile south of the village of Stow. 



Messrs. Hall and Thompson regard a bed of steatite which they examined in Stow, as one of the best 

 seen by them, in 1845. " It is extensive : the rock is compact, and is near good water power. It is 

 accompanied by serpentine, and contains fine specimens of talc and actinolite." 



In Cambridge on Sterling Mountain, near its top upon the east side, there is a bed of steatite which has 

 been examined by Prof. Adams' assistants, but no record was preserved of their observations upon it. 

 It is located in the old town of Sterling. We were informed in Johnson that much steatite of excellent 

 quality occurs near the center of the old town of Sterling. 



There are two beds of steatite in the northeast part of Johnson, which are said to be of inferior quality. 

 There is a bed of excellent steatite in Eden. It is on Mr. Phillip's land, one mile west of the church. It 

 is fifteen feet wide, and runs N. 16 E. There is another on Lowell Mountain. In the west part, of 

 Waterville there is a bed of steatite associated with serpentine. The stone is of most excellent quality, 

 being remarkably free from brown spar. We have considered it the finest in the State. 



There is a bed of steatite in Belvidere, three miles nortlreast of the meeting-house. The bod is about six 

 rods wide where it has l)een quarried. The central part of the bed is rather a coarse serpentine. The talc- 

 ose schist east of the steatite dips about 75 W. The steatite is unusually pure talc, so that it is very soft. 

 Talc and actinolite are abundant at this bed also. There is a bed of steatite in the oast part of Enosburgh. 



