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Boulders of New-England and the Middle States. 
from north to south, but there are many exceptions. Red sandstone, precisely like that of 
Chatham, was observed on the eastern faces and tops of high hills in Marlborough, and the 
direction seems to have been southeast. Blocks and boulders of granular quartz rock, pre¬ 
cisely similar to that of Great hill, three miles east of Middletown, are found in Middletown 
and for twenty miles to the west.* 
Geol. 4th Dist. 
