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fertility of the soil, the salubrity of the climate, the vicinity of 

 boat navigation, in a word, every natural advantage unites to 

 persuade us that cultivated plantations, elegant and happy 

 homes, and spires of churches, may one day be seen from the 

 Currihee as they are now from the top of Mount Holyoke.* 



REMARKS. 



The mountain rock through which the Tallulah passes, is 

 of a dark grey, sometimes approaching a blue color. The 

 first bed of rocks, descending perhaps one hundred and fifty 

 feet, is irregularly broken into masses of all forms and sizes ; 

 then succeed others with long parallel seams, dipping in a 

 regular line with the fall of the river. These rest upon a 

 third class of rocks, solid and of a light grey which form the 

 bed of the stream. The Indians say that no fish, (not even 

 the smallest minnow,) are found above the Rapids. 



Springs impregnated with lime and iron are found in the 

 vicinity. Alum and a hill containing a mineral resembling 

 coal, are situated below the Rapids. 



A few white pine and hemlock trees grow upon the Rap- 

 ids. They are the only trees of the kind which I have seen in 

 South Carolina or Georgia, and gentlemen from both these 

 states were of our party who had never before seen the spe- 

 cies. None of our company had seen the spruce pine in these 

 states. We noticed eight species of oaks — white, red, black, 

 Spanish, post, black-jack, chestnut, and live oak. 



Art. II. — Miscellaneous Notices of Mineral Localities, with 

 Geological Remarks ; by Prof. Edward Hitchcock. 



During the summer and autumn of 1827, I visited a 

 number of the well known localities of minerals in Massa- 

 chusetts and Connecticut ; and if the following remarks, in 

 the form of a diary, are of any value, they are offered for a 

 place in the Journal of Science. I was accompanied in 

 most of my excursions, by my assistant in chemistry, Mr. Lu- 

 cius F. Clark, to whose zealous assistance I am much in- 

 debted. 



July. — Visited the most important localities in Chester- 

 field. The green tourmaline and rubellite still hold out in 

 great abundance. The vein has been laid open ten or 



Near Northampton, Mass. 



