Litchfield enquirer., 1877-09-20
GOSHEN. Sept. 8. 1877.

--" OOSdENs 0epC. O 40tts
 As make my annual visit to my birth
 place, find that Professor Halls late
 discovery of the satellites of Mars has
 awakened new. interest m scientific study,
 and we'll it may; for it is in many re.
 spects the most brilliant discovery of the
 age, and very honorable to Litchfeld County, and especially to his native town
 Goshen. ; '1 ''' .'@' '''' ' .'.-. r But the old Coun y. has nuch in itself, as we'll as in the noble men it has produc- ed. to interest the attention of the lovers of Science. The records of the stupend- ous changes that have taken place in this region long ago, can be as plainly read as theinscriptions npon the old dtomb-stones.
 I have been greatly interested in mark ing the limits of the Limestone boulders that are scattered over part of Goshen.
 All of them lie upon or near the surface oflthe ground. and plainly were deposited
 where weanow find them. by one, of the glaciers of the ice-period. That they came from the northwest, or from Canaan, is perfectly plain. for they are found only in sa strip, of perhaps three miles wide. ex- tending from the Northwest to the South east corner of the town. The Eastern
 boundary Of this belt is very near the home of the late Deacon Lewis M. Norton: while the Western is distinctly marked near the residences of the late Milo Bar tholomew. Other evidences of the move-
 rnents of glaciers over all this part of the counfy. we find in the well. known cuts or marks upon the lodges and rocks as seen in Goshen, Norfolk, Cornwall and else where. As your readers have been told by your Goshen correspondent, these marks or deep cut lines, all run in Gosh 'en and Cornwall, in nearly the same di- Eecti9n.- and the glacier that made them came from the northwest, and moved about eighteen degrees east or south. Near the centre of Norfolk where the marks are very distinct and found in great numbers, the line of movement was about 34 degrees east of south so that it is nearly certain that at least two glaciers passed over the northern part of this county. h5a@ss. s-a'..aaass--- .'.'i~f's
 go One of the most remarkable of all these old records is to be seen on the south side of the road down Bunker Hill, in Cornwall. just below the old Bunker House It is . boulder, weighing per- haps two tons, dying npon. nearly fiat ledge of ertirsly different material, about 20 feetsfrom the road. It is called ssthe Indian wash-board, 2 and is so deeply cut on tho ianes which cover what is now the .uppet slde of the boulder, that l should call it the old time gingerbread rock.
 TwoIor three of the cnts begin nearly a foot from thei side of. the boulder. but soon beeome as deep as the other. The lowest of aih for the rock inclines to the vest. is the sharpess cnt. and about an inch deep. I have never seen another go deep and go sharply, defined. though I have examined them in many localities. especially on the ersides and near the top of Mf Monadnock, in New Hampshire. The boulder at Bunker Hill must have moved at the bottom of a glacier. and have been turned over as it ,y9s deposit sdq These giaeiess must have been of enormous thickness to have, moved as. they did oyst thess hills, and mountains, tot Ivy monntain is something of an ele- satioh, while Monadnock is, if my memo. Y serves mi, asaFly s40O feet high But there were 70 obetacless to a. glacier lO.- oQ2 ffes asss yith q force enough behind 70 back it But Rhat . washing and grind- ing asb the mighty mass moved on. inoh by inch. century ' after a cen- tury And how much of the sand and fine earstlot our planet was ground ont in fhese ancient mills, who can tell9 At the present time. the water issuing ::from un- der the Swiss glaciers is very muddy.
 II also find the nice trees planted in the Centsnnial year. by the Centennial com
 missee. and acommittee. apponted by the church. Co mark the spots on the East slde 0f East st. north of the old Liberty pole place; here stood the log house of
 geacon Baldwin, in which the church was !ofmed and the spot where that nobfe nand 0f patriots gathefed tiiat drearY EeDrqa!y morning and started for the ira6z2 r6z42 glons oi tlae North. promise to be velrA91s iarGe at ths next OsntanniaI. asisa Y
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