in the Counties of IN: ew-Haven and Litchfield. 208 
yond Watertown we come to ledges of granite constituting 
a considerable hill. Here I found much ‘of the graphic gra- 
nite and radiated or plumose mica, both very handsome in 
their kind. The feldspar of the granite was white with a 
high pearly lustre, and the grey quartz was delicately inter- 
spersed in graphic forms. ‘The specimens were of extreme 
“delicacy. 
Mica-Slate. 
As I proceeded, the granite soon changed again into mica~ 
slate, and this continued without exception, quite to Litch- 
field. It often contammed garnets and occasionally stauro- 
tide, and I saw loose masses of granite, with crystals of 
black tourmalin; while rising Litchfield-hill numerous loose 
blocks were to be seen of primitive limestone containing 
tremolite. In fact, the loose stones through the whole ride 
from Woodbridge hills were very numerous, but they were 
altogether fragments of primitive rocks—often granite, 
sometimes with the component parts very distinct. 
Frequently the loose rocks contained crystals of feld- 
spar as large asa thumb or finger,—so as to be quite por- 
phyritic—they were sometimes Branite and sometimes gneiss 
i Latchfield-Ehill. 
Litchfield-hill isa beautiful spot. One principal street. 
(intersected however by some crossiifreets) extends more 
than a mile in length,and contains a collection of very hand- 
some houses, with gardens and court-yards—the houses and 
appendages are generally painted white, and it is rare to see 
so considerable a number of houses in a country town 
where nearly all apparently belong to gentry. In England 
such a town would be a wonder, and here, connected as it 
is with the rich agricultural country which surrounds it,— 
swelled into beautiful hills, and scooped into luxuriant val- 
lies, every where covered with lively verdure and with cul- 
tivated fields—it presents a very interesting and gratilying 
spectacle. 
Litchfield-hill reposes on mica-slate, and this on the road 
to Goshen, continues to be the prevailing rock. ti often 
abounds with garnets and staurotide—some of the crystals 
of the last form the cross, and are occasionally large. 
Vou. IT.....No, 2. Og 
