Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-12-24

Calumet, where the Fourth was not being
celebrated to spend the night. When
we got there we met a young lady who
had been student in the institution with
which ] had been connected and we staid
with her. When we again started we
took the stage to Eagle IIarbor, where
we intended to camp out We pitched
our camp on the shore of the lake and
staid there two weeks. While we were
there got many specimens of plants and
minerals. Sandstone is very abundant
there and is harder and darker than what
is used as the trimmings of this school
building. Sometimes the sandstone is
covered with parallel ridges which are
called ripple-marks. In some past time
the sand near the shore of the lake was
laid in little ridges by the movement of
the water. Then it gradually hardened
and changed to stone. Afterwards more
sand driftcd upon it, filling up its hollows
and receiving them on its own upper
surface. When the second layer harden
ed it had the ripple-marks on both sides.
When the fragments of the sandstone are
coarse it is called conglomerate sand
stone. The hill northeast of this village.
if it were changed to sandstone, would
be conglomerate sandstone.
Agate Harbor. so called on account of
the great quantity of agates found there,
is little beyond Eagle Harbor. Agate
Beach and Agate Point are places near
there, so named for the same reason. The
agates are generally small and the pre-
vailing colors are red and white. although
some have other cOlorS. We got some
large ones at a store which were polished
on one side and We're very pretty. |
would start in the morning for Silver
Creek with my fishing tackle and would
catch enough fish to last a day. Mrs.
Boyce would 90 out on the beach and
pick up perhaps quart of agateS. Isle
Royale is large island across the lake
from where we camped. 1t was neal
there that large steamer was wrecked
last year. 1t was built in England. en-
tirely of steel, and was brought across
the ocean in parts. remember looking
across toward the island and seeing the
same steamer. did not notice anything
remarkable about it except that it seemed
to be going very swiftly. Marks of gla-
cial action, which are numerous on the
rocks of this region, are also abundant
there.
For camping out one needs to take
an extra supply of clothing - for there
are apt to be sudden changes in the
weather., kettle, frying-pan, tin bake
oven, mixing basins. flour, and so on. but
no cotfee-pot, for in such place one doe:
not need cotlee,as indeed he does not any
where. Tin bake-ovens were used 8
great deal in the time of our grandfather.
and grandmothers. but are not often seer
nowadays. In camping out. however
you cannot get along without one. Two
pieces of tin are fastened about at a righ
angle with each other and the CRATE. upol
which the dish to be cooked is placed. i.
fastened between so that it can be RAISED
or lowered. The oven is placed befor,
an open fire with the opening toward it
The heat from the fire which strikes tn,
upper side of the oven is reflected to tn,
upper side of the CRATE and that which
strikes the lower side of the oven to tn,
lower side of the CRATE. If the dish il
cooking too fast on the bottom, the graf,
should be raised, and if it is cooking t.
fast on top, the CRATE should be lowered
Biscuits will bake in this kind of an over
in twenty minutes.
One day found quite an area covered
with beaver stumps, some of which wer'
two feet in diameter. In beavers skull
the front teeth, which it uses in cuttin!
down trees. are very long and sharp. |
has four grinders on each side and in eat
ing it does not move its jaws Sideway
like COW, but backwards and forwards
y beaver cuts down tree in the same
way in which man does. Ii first make
Il cut at the lower side and then at tin
upper and then bites out the chip. Tn,
trees which it cuts are the yellow birch
the black birch, the poplar, and some
times the mountain ash.
There are copper mines in that vicinity
TWO kinds of copper are obtained, ShO
copper and mass copper. When it i
found in little Jumps it i called sho
copper, and when it is found in large
pieces it is called mass copper. Whel
taken from the mine it i not like tn
copper which We buy, but is hard an,
brittle. Copper, unlike iron, become
harder the slower it is cooled. For thi
reason mass copper. which when tn
earth cooled from its liquid state coole,
very slowly, is harder than the small
particles of shot copper which coole'
less slowly. To obtain shot copper tn
rock which bears it is crushed and tn
particles of copper are at the same tim