378 GEORGE D. HUBBARD 



one mile north and one and one-half miles west of Saybrook, lime 

 was burned forty or fifty years ago. A small kiln was built and 

 operated several years with rock from this deposit. A half-mile 

 east of this kiln, past the schoolhouse, another "pocket" was 

 opened and several loads drawn some thirty-five years ago. At 

 present but few know of these limestone pits, for they have been 

 entirely dug out and the holes are plowed over. Portions of the 

 kilns and fragments of waste alone remain. 



Two miles north and one mile west from Saybrook are a number 

 of slabs resembling nagging. These are quite numerous on one 

 farm. On a farm ten miles west of Saybrook lime was burned for 

 the local market, but at present the rock is apparently exhausted. 

 In this locality, a good many loads for foundations and well curbs 

 have also been drawn away. According to a boring for Mr. H. 

 Cheney of Saybrook, bed rock was struck here at a depth of 236 

 feet. It is recorded that a five-foot limestone bowlder was struck 

 in a gravel bed at a depth of 150 feet. A well digger here in con- 

 versation said that in digging wells he frequently encountered 

 limestone bowlders of various sizes, and noted several localities 

 where the bowlder weighed from ten to twenty tons. A number 

 of wells in the vicinity have been walled with the rock taken out 

 in digging, supplemented with more found near by. "In fact," 

 he says, "there is lots of limestone scattered all over the country." 

 No bed rock, however, has ever been found about Saybrook except 

 at considerable depths as in the well cited, 236 feet. 1 With 

 such thickness of drift as this, these masses of limestone cannot 

 be in place. 



The largest drift mass of limestone is in Livingston County, 

 about a mile and a half southwest of Fairbury, where Dr. Brewer 

 has been taking out a great deal of limestone. The mass is along 

 a small stream where the water divides, flowing around a little 

 island. On the north bank of the south division and on both 

 banks of the north division, rock is found; but on the extreme 

 south bank no rock is known, nor is rock struck in any wells on the 

 south side of the stream. Along the stream on the north side for 



1 Frank Leverett, U.S.G.S. Mou. 38, 605, reports a boring for coal here reaching 

 rock at 247 feet. 



