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Lime. The writer does not know that any lime is burned in 

 Franklin county at the present day. In the old days the crystal- 

 line limestone of the Grenville series was burned for lime, and 

 some of the old kilns are still standing. The old kiln near Alder- 

 brook in which the Calciferous was burned has already been 

 mentioned. With the possible exception" of some layers of the 

 Calciferous, these produce lime of very inferior quality compared 

 with that obtained from the Black river and Chazy limestones 

 along Lake Champlain, which are quite near at hand. The former 

 use of the crystalline limestone as a flux has of course lapsed with 

 the dying out of the iron industry. 



