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Localities of Occurrence. — The localities at which Spodumene 

 hits been found are as follows: All these veins, except II, were 

 originally opened by E. Emmons, C. U. Sheparcl, and E. Hitch- 

 cock, many years ago. 



I — In the northern part of the town of Goshen, on the 

 Manning farm, over two miles north of the village of Goshen 

 Center, on the road to Ashfield. 



II — In the town of Goshen, on the farm of Levi Barrus, 

 about one mile west of the preceding locality. 



Ill — In the northwest corner of the town of Chesterfield, and 

 two miles southeast of the village of East Cummington, at a 

 granite ledge on the farm of A. Macomber. This small vein I 

 first opened in the year 1870. 



IV — At the village of Chesterfield Hollow, about two miles 

 south of the last locality, in a ledge above the village, called 

 " Isinglass Bock." 



V — Four miles further south, in the town of Huntington 

 (formerly Norwich), on Walnut Hill, in the vein celebrated for 

 its remarkable crystals of Spodumene. 



VI — In the town of Chester, about one mile north of Chester 

 Village. 



In the first locality mentioned, in the town of Goshen, the vein 

 is not visible in place, but many large angular fragments and 

 boulders, on the south-eastern slope of a low hill, indicate its 

 close vicinity. The Spodumene here occurs in irregular and 

 imperfect bladed crystals, sometimes two inches in diameter, 

 and is much stained by films of Pyrolusite derived from the de- 

 composition of the Garnet. With a little search, individuals 

 Avere readily found in a partially altered condition, which had 

 assumed a micaceous and radiated structure, and consisted of a 

 soft and yellowish form of impure Cymatolite. 



In the second of the Goshen localities referred to, on the 

 Barrus farm, a heavy and coarse granite vein, accompanied in 

 places with a contiguous vein of reddish-white quartz of corres- 

 ponding size, forms the western wall of a low and somewhat 

 marshy valley, thickly strewn with large and but little rounded 

 granite boulders. In the visible portion of the vein, the only 

 mineral of interest is Beryl, occurring in small and scattered 

 green crystals. But, in the boulders, Spodumene has been of 



