Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-01-02

edge'tools. Stowe and Eden contain Chlorie-
slate, much employed in the erection of build
lngs; 1t quarrles easily, and is of handsome
pale green color. Mica slate is more abundant,
and more used than Chlorite it contains great
er proportion of silex, is hard and refractory. A
Few boulders of granite have been discovered in
Wolcott, and one in Morristown, which is split
into building stone.
Galena OF a rich quality has been found in
Mansfield NOW added to Stow the locality from
which it come is not yet ascertained in the
same town, there is quarry of Alum stone its
surface, by the action of water and air, is cover
cd with an efflorescence of sulphate of Alumi-
nB, which being carried to the foot of the quar-
ry, is deposited in imperfect crystals that are
gathered by the inhabitants for domestic pur-
poses; the salt as collected, IS Opaque and of a
yellOwish cast to remove the impurities, it |
should be dissolved and clarified, when lie cryE-
tails will become transparent.
Copper ore has been found in Sterling, as al |
80, an abundance of Steatite, high on the noun
tains and of difficult access. Beautiful speci-
mems of Tale are met with IN this locality.
Gleenstone is procured under or at the base of
Elmore mountain in Morristown, the vein ex
tending into Hydepark.
Bog iron ore is found in several ports of the
county; the most abundant is in Hydepark and
Stowe. Peat bogs are numerous, and the far
mers are beginning to avail themselves of this
rich trsasure, which in its natural state, is but a
nuisance. In the eastern section Of Hydepark,
and nearly in the centre, from N. to s., is bed
of Yellow Ochre, several acres in extent; it
forms fine, durable and excellent paint, sus-
ceptible of diversity of shades by various de-
grees of ignition, The analysis of of this stone
is as follows:
In one 100 parts, there are 67 parts of perox-
lde OF iron, trace of protoxide Of iron, II veg
etable matter, siIex, and l2 tetanium There
appears to be a supply sufficient ofhis paint for
all New England, and it is of the more value,
that IN its preparation it requires no drters as it
contains an abundance of this ingredient in its
composition
know not how far in a communication of
this nature should be allowed to conjecture
upon ancient appearances, that do not at this
day admit of actual demonstraton-but there are
80 many monuments, and evidences of the exist
ence Of Lake in days long gone by, in this
county, covering some so square miles, that
cannot fDrego the desire of giving brief ac-
count 1T. 1t extended from Johnson TO VOL
colt, Stowe and Eden. The elevated plains in
these towns are extensive and arenaceous one
in the east part Of Hydepa;k, contains some 500
acres, covered with smooth pebbles, many Of
them being serpenline. There are all the evil
dences of an ancient stream, which take to be
the bed of Green river, that now empties itself
into the Lamoc at Wolcott. This river dis
charged its waters into this lake, through this
ar'Vi~s IL, r,-,,;-Gr tho na;r ri I~b~ Ai'~''t
100 rods south of the river is pot-hoe some
feet deep, where place the bed of the river
The present bed of the stream is 100 feet lower
than this pothole. There are pot-holes in ma
ny other places, one east of Stowe village, 80 OF
40 feet above the village, and feet in depth.
The plain on which Hydepark village and the
County buildings are located, il some twoi hun
dred feet above the Lamole it has been pene-
traied to the depth of sixty three fee, and found
to be alIuvial to that extent; the plain Is one
half mile in length, its slope towards the river Is
very abrupt. From Johnson to Wolcott, these
,o,ooo,,o ,,lons u, - tho bor1ars of tho strpa n
some are level and very picturesque, shaded by
the deep foliage of the Sugar-mape others arr
broken by ravines or washed away by the smal
ri7uets and rains after the subSiding of the Lake
which from appearances, must have been grad
ually drained. The Lamoe river has cut thro
both spurs of the Green Mountains in Wolcot
and Johnson making a deep channel thfougl
the towering and solid rocks at the Bndge
In Johnson, the river ordinarily rushes under
rocky arch forming bridge. Lower down tn
stream, the water has worn its channel throug
the rocks, and when the river is low, man ca
step from one side to the other. Here appear
to be the barrier formed by mural rocks whic
obstructed thu flow Of the waters and gave origi
to the Lake ;these, and other distractions whic
could name, are to me as satisfactory indlca
;, tions of the former existance Of the Lake | hav
described, as though we're endowed with sec
ond sight
. have been as brief az possible in the aboy
short and not very systematic sketch, havln
written wholly from memory, and wish 1t to |
understood, that all the knowledge | possess
- Geology, has been obtained within the last ie
years, in my own study, and without the assis
ance of an instructor.
Vermont, Oct. 1850.
I'VE doubt not but that our Readers VIII d
rive much satisfaction and instruction from t
). uerusal OF the above communication, by our e
q ;ellent correspondent Lamoille." An exte
d sve range Of practice in the Northern Count
q Of Vermont, has thrown him in the way OF c.
y. lectng numerous interesting and valuable fa'
10 in relation to the Natural Sciences, possess
o. by few men in this part of the country. 81
Do communications will at all times receive W
:; come insertion in the columns of the LANCET.
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-, Treatment of Scarlet Fever.
nd IMPORTANT PRESCRIPTION.
n DR.. Lindsey, of Washington, in letter to
as Boston Medical and ChirmgdcaI Journal stron