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watering-places, or grazing on the plains. The inhabited parts 

 of the country present a prospect still more pleasing ; around 

 the margin of those extensive rich prairies, numerous habita- 

 tions are seen, withdrawn a short distance in the wood, from 

 the winter's cold and summer's heat — their finely cultivated 

 fields lie in the prairies, which yield at once to the plough, 

 without the previous Herculean labour of demolishing the 

 forest. The area between the farms is a common of pasture to 

 the numerous herds during the spring, summer, and autumn, 

 and a small part mowed affords hay for the winter. The 

 farmer who takes up his habitation in the neighbourhood of 

 the prairies, has many of the advantages of an old inhabited 

 country, and all the advantages of the new. 



Art. III. Sketch of the Mineralogy and Geology of the 

 Vicinity of Williams^ College, Williamstown, Mass. By 

 Professor Dewey, of Williams'^ College^ in a letter to 

 the Editor. 



X HE following sketch includes a space extending from Hoo- 

 sack mountain on the east, to the State of New- York on the 

 west, and a small distance into Vermont on the north. The 

 accompanying map shows the relative situation of the streams, 

 and the principal hills and mountains. The map is an enlarged 

 copy of Carleton's map of this part of the state, with one or 

 two corrections, which truth required. The latitude and lon- 

 gitude are probably not perfectly accurate. 



Williams' College is situated in a valley, having on the west 

 the hills of the Taconick* range ; on the east. Saddle Mountain, 

 which separates it for the most part from Adams ; and on the 

 north, and northeast, two hills which belong to the southwest- 

 ern part of the range of the Green Mountains. Hoosack River, 

 rising several miles at the southeast, and passing threugh the 

 northeastern part of Williamstown, winds its course northwest, 



* Former orthography, Toghconnuck and Toghconnuc. That of the text de- 

 viates farther from the Indian, but is later and preferable. 



