Notice of a Mineralized 7*ree, «|/-c. 



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on this road from the village of Peekskill, and then ascend 

 a very high and steep hill o"n the left hand, near the top of 

 vifhich the rock may be seen. The moveable stone is about 

 thirty-one feet in circumference, and five feet through in 

 the thickest part — it is of granite, the mica bed so strati- 

 fied as to present somewhat the appearance of gneiss, and 

 it stands or is supported on a base or pedestal of the same 

 mineral. A better idea will be formed of the figure and 

 position of this rock from the rough sketch which accompa- 

 nies this, than from any verbal description. The under 

 rock or pedestal (R) is about one foot and a half high, and 

 is almost flat on its upper surface. The rolling rock (C) 

 rests on this plane. Although it cannot be shaken as easi- 

 ly as the wonderful rock in Asia mentioned by Pliny — or as 

 the Gygonian stone, which trembled on being " struck with 

 the stalk of an Asphodel 5" it can however be rolled a lit- 

 tle by the hand, and with a small lever it can be moved 

 with great ease ; — notwithstanding this, six men with crow- 



bars have been unable to roll it down from its pedestal. 

 "Larue masses of steatite are scattered around — good speci- 

 mens of Asbestus, may also be obtained at a short distance. 

 I found some very pretty specimens of blue quartz in she 

 hlocks of granite, which form the fence along the read. 

 On the west of the rocking stone, about half a mile, tb'^re 

 is a lake three miles long and half a mile wile — a shte of 

 water of much magnitude is not frequently met with on such 

 an elevation. 



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