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to Ashfield, a mile or two, he will meet with another locality 

 of spodumene. If he takes his departure from Greenfield, 

 or Deerfield, the mineralogist may proceed to Goshen, by 

 the way of Ashfield, and then to Williamsburgh, on the 

 route already mentioned, through^ Cummington and Ches- 

 terfield : and if he chooses, he can proceed directly from the 

 argentine at Williamsburgh, to the Southampton lead mine, 

 which is six or eight miles from Northampton. He will find 

 it for his interest to provide himself with conveniences for 

 packing his minerals before he sets out ; as he will not find 

 at any locality, except Mr. Clark's, materials for this purpose. 



August. — Went in search of a locality of sulphuret of 

 molybdena, in Shutesbury, described in vol. 1. p. 238, of 

 this Journal, as occuring in that town, on land of William 

 Eaton. Could not find any such person, nor ascertain that 

 he ever owned any land in that place ; though he was recol- 

 lected. Ascertained at length that the spot was on land of 

 Mr. Pratt, in the extreme northern part of the town, close 

 by a common chalybeate spring, more than half a mile from 

 any house. The ore is found in a granite rock which forms 

 abed, or vein, in mica slate. But it was impossible to ob- 

 tain more than two or three specimens of any value. Pos- 

 sibly by considerable blasting, good specimens might be 

 found ; but unless the mineralogist goes prepared for this bu- 

 siness, I would not recommend him to visit this locality. 

 Good specimens of black schorl, however, occur not far 

 from the spot, and the geologist will be much interested 

 by the enormous veins and beds of granite existing in the 

 same field. 



About a mile west of this place, is a large pond. On its 

 southern shore, is a beach made up chiefly of the most beau- 

 tiful white sand I ever saw. This appears to have procee- 

 ded from the disintegration of granite. Growing out of 

 this sand, I observed many plants rarely seen in this vicinity ; 

 such as the xyris caroliniana, lobelia dortmanna, eriocau- 

 lon pellucidum, beautiful patches of galega virginica, pros- 

 erpinaca palustris, and a species of utricularia, rooting in 

 the dry sand and almost destitute of utriculi. The novelty of 

 this spot afforded some consolation for our disappointment 

 at the vein of molybdena. 



Actynolite Schist of Macculloch. — On our return, we 

 found this rock, well characterized, in the centre of Shutes- 

 bury, directly opposite the mineral spring, which is some- 



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