196 SURFACE GEOLOGY. 
The striz about Bible hill in Claremont need further mention. This hill rises about 
350 feet above the plain of the village at its northern base. What is supposed to be 
the normal direction is about S.12° W., which occurs commonly west of the summit of 
the hill for two or three miles, reaching beyond the Connecticut. North of the village, 
it is S. 15° E.; among the houses, S. 41° E.; and on the east side of the hill, S. 23°-25° 
E., in a valley leading to Unity. On the south slope of Green mountain, east of the 
village, are intersections of the almost east course with that of about S. 12° E. On 
the westerly side of the top of Bible hill the most common course is S. 6° E. with S. 
25° E. This is half a mile east from Brown's, Clark’s, and Stone’s, where the westerly 
course has been noted. We now proceed three fourths of a mile north-east to the 
‘¢Flat Top,” a spur of the hill, with scarcely any depression between. At the com- 
mencement, where the north-east slope begins, are striz S. 57° E. pointing back to 
Little Ascutney, and crossing others S.1° W. Next are some S. 46° E., pointing to 
Ascutney, apparently marked on the lee side of strie pointing S. 1° W. to S. 1° E. 
Another ledge has striz S. 46° E. crossed by others S. 1° E.; then S. 16° E. crossed 
by S. 41° E. and S. 51° E., the middle one the most common. Another ledge shows, 
in a narrow compass, the courses S. 21°, 36° 41°, and 57° E. Where the courses are so 
numerous, there is a marked tendency to irregularity; the striae do not preserve their 
parallelism. A change of ten or fifteen degrees in direction will occur in a distance 
of less than a yard. Flat Top hill shows more of the irregularities than the highest 
summit to the south-west. Near the aqueduct, at the base of Flat Top, the course is 
S.17° E. The impression was acquired at our visit that the south-east course cut 
those running southerly. 
This is the most remarkable mingling of strie I have ever met with. It is obvious 
that the field was crossed by the ice proceeding south-east and south, or from Ascutney, 
and down the Connecticut. The first were also occasionally deflected still more to the 
east by the large valley of Sugar river leading easterly to Sunapee lake. Some of the 
intermediate courses might have been caused by the meeting of the two masses of ice 
struggling to advance in different directions. Boulders from Mt. Ascutney are com- 
mon to the north-east and east of Bible hill. The locality needs further exploration. 
A few other interesting localities will be mentioned next before we attempt to draw 
the legitimate conclusions authorized by the list of stria. 
Mr. Monapnock. 
This mountain possesses a conical shape, rising about 2,000 feet from 
a comparatively level country, the elevation of the plain being 1,000 feet 
above the sea. Its composition causes the striz and embossment to be 
well preserved, while its isolated position illustrates one peculiarity of 
the drift-action. My father first described it in the Proceedings of the 
American Association of Geologists and Naturalists, in 1842, in the geol- 
