No. 3. — The Eichmond Boulder Trains, hj E, R Benton. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The following is a list of the principal publications which relate to 

 the Richmond Boulder Trains : — 



Dr. S. Reid' " Berkshire Farmer," Lenox, Mass. 1842. 



Edward Hitchcock, LL. D., Amer. Jour, of Science and Art. October, 

 1845, Page 258. Read before the Amer. Ass. of Geologists and Naturalists, 

 at Washington, D. C, May, 1844. 



Dr. Reid read a paper before the above Association, May, 1845. 



Professors H. D. and W. B. Rogers, Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. June, 1846. 

 Page 310. Read before the Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., December 3, 1845. 



Sir Charles Lyell read a paper before the Royal Institution of Great 

 Britain, April 27, 1855. 



Sir Charles Lyell, "Antiquity of Man." Second Am. Ed. 1871. Page 

 355. 



John B. Perry, Proc. Amer. Ass. for Advancement of Science, at the meet- 

 ing held Augus't, 1870. Page 167. Also Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1872. 

 Page 110. 



Dr. Reid, " Berkshire County Eagle." Pittsfield, Mass. January and 

 February, 1876. 



To Dr. S. Reid, formerly of Richmond, seems to belong the credit of 

 first discovering, and bringing to the notice of geologists, the existence 

 of trains of boulders in that region. One very distinct train, passing 

 half a mile to the north of the Congregational meeting-house in Rich- 

 mond, and composed of entirely different material from that of the bed- 

 rock beneath, he traced to its source, three miles to the northwest, upon 

 the crest of a ridge in Canaan, N. Y. He also traced it in the opposite 

 direction eight or nine miles, across the Richmond Valley, the Lenox 

 Range, and the Lenox Valley into the town of Lee, and he believed that 

 its entire length was not less than twenty miles. Dr. Reid also de- 

 scribed another train as starting from the same ridge half a mile south 

 of the first, and running parallel to it for a distance of eight miles. He 

 seems, however, to have attempted no explanation of the phenomena 

 which he described. 



Dr. Edward Hitchcock, in the American Journal of Science and Art, 

 gave a restatement of Dr. Reid's observations, with some considerable 

 additions thereto, and a sketch map exhibiting an outline of the topog- 



