58 Geology of Massachusetts. 
Another vein of galena exists in the south part of Southampton, 
near the line of Montgomery. It appears for several rods on the 
surface, but is only a foot or twoin breadth. A few years ago, efforts 
were made to open this vein by a horizontal adit, but the proprietors 
have become discouraged and abandoned the undertaking. 
In Northampton. 
This vein is only a short distance north of the principal vein im 
Southampton, above described. The gangueis radiated quartz, and 
the walls are mica slate. Yellow blende or sulphuret of zine abounds 
here; and the vein was formerly explored to a considerable depth. 
It is several feet wide. 
In Williamsburgh. 
The first galena vein to be noticed in this town, lies near the south- 
ern part; extending indeed into Northampton. Its width cannot be 
ascertained, being covered partially with soil. ‘The gangue is quartz ; 
but the galena is not abundant near the surface, and no exploration 
has been made. Other minerals occur here which render the place 
interesting to mineralogists. 
The second vein is near the north-eastern part of the town, and 
probably extends into Whately. It is two or three feet wide, and 
the gangue, as in nearly every other vein of lead in this region, is 
quartz. Manganese is found in the same gangue. 
A third vein of quartz with galena, occurs in this town, a mile 
or two north east of the one last mentioned. The quartz, how- 
ever, appears only in loose masses on the surface, but to such an ex- 
tent, as can be explained only on the supposition, that a vein exists 
in the rock beneath the soil. Pyritous copper is found in connexion 
with the galena at this place. 
In Goshen. 
According to the statements of Mr. Alanson Nash, who has given 
a map and description of the Jead veins and mines of Hampshire 
county, in the twelfth volume of the American Journal of Science, 
the same indications of a galena vein appear a little west of the 
centre of Goshen, as those mentioned in respect to the third vein in 
Williamsburgh just noticed, viz. the occurrence of masses of quartz 
containing galena. The rock in the region is mica slate and quartz. 
