70 NATURE STUDY. 
Two Mammoth Boulders. 
BY GEORGE I. HOPKINS. 
Boulders are so plentiful in most parts of New England that 
the sight]of one seldom arouses interest or comment except in the 
mind of the eager geologist who is ever on the qui vive for addi¬ 
tional information respecting them. Doubtless ignorance of their 
distribution is responsible for much of this lack of interest, while 
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it is also true that things or events which are of frequent occur¬ 
rence soon become commonplace. It is only when a specimen 
of gigantic or minute proportions is discovered that the popular 
interest is aroused ; and so giants and midgets of the human 
species have always catered successfully to a curious public. 
This is equally true of other branches of the animal kingdom, 
as well as the vegetable and mineral kingdoms. 
From a purely geological standpoint a huge boulder is of no 
