Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-04
ON NEW ENGLAND,s COAST.
Boulder Drift-GranIte and Metamor- ph1c ROcks-PIeasant RecollectiOns of Pleasant RambIes.

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 [CoNCLUDED.1 In some remote age of the world, when 'the mountains were settled" and the hills were formed, heat did work some great changes in the crystalline texture, forms and co1ors of certain rocks which wil1sbe Just here, in reference to bou1ders again, recall to mind 6 large stone of similar color and perhaps texture, viz: At Bar Harbor, on the metamorphic shore rocks | slanting down into Frenchman's bay, an | object of interest to the summer visitors. | Some of them call it the Balanced rock-a curiosity even among boulders. From one view it looks in outline like pineapple 1 cheese point up, higher than one's head and immensely heavy. There is no danger of it's being overturned, And 80 different it looks from the rock bed of its resting placel Whence did it come? and what evolutions did it go through to be worn as it is? Surely it has also history of its own, as ever individual has.
 In Bracy's cove west of Seal harbor at low tide got near other great stones not similar to these nor to their surroundings. Among them was one of yellow white color of great coarse crystals closely knit, as I thought, chiefly silex. At Hunters cove, left in this narration, lar eastward, some other day, among many other great stones of foreign drift under the west wall, was one of dark iron-black, wherefrom frac tured piece returned with me. Did it come from Labrador, or Greenland ,or elsewhere? Perhaps Dana has told us. Would that understood these things better Look through the Yale Peabody museum and Dana's textbook and see what study mineralogy..isl Forty years ago, elsewhere, with much smaller cabinet and little time to give to it's close study, ,even then miss ed it in not going deeper into one of the most interesting of studies.
 "Books in the running brooks, sermons in stones and good in everything" comes to mind from some writer who had unused on these things. However, I think the earth was long time in being prepared for mans abode, and I doubt not the changes of weather and many things we note and do not note are still working great changes to make it still more and better habitable in some remote age to come. If the millennium is on it's way, and think it is, there are "ages to come" | beyond that and 8 new and better history of the earth and man than ever before. You "don't know about it" Well, it's a l wide subject-too large to enter upon fur. 1 ther now. Let us go to Greenland, once 8 l tropical region by many proofs. Take Dr. Kane for our guide and explorer and learn | of him about the great Humboldt glacier far up on the west coast, see the glacier | many miles along.
 How the great ice bergs crack off where | it's feet dip into the sea and carry the | stones gathered captive in their under sur faces as they slowly descended from eleva- ted places far away 1000 feet above sea level and at last break loose to drift around and down far in mid-ocean-every year endangering European steamers crossing | the Atlantic.
 | If anybody wishes to see the bears and walruses and seals and Esquimo and have real mental adventure amid prolonged hardships and determined reserches, let him read Kane or any of the later ex- plorers, not forgetting Nordenskiold's voy- age of the Vega from Sweden and Norway, north and eastward through Boring straits, to Japan, the Red sea, and back to Stock holm. All such books interest me. To illustrate the size of the boulders and con- firm the theory have to speak of another requisite strength for mountain climbing.
 One day James Clement, mein host, in furtherance of my sketching mania, took me in his buggy two miles from Sea Side house to Jordan's pond, or lake, two or three miles long, surrounded by mountains 800, 200 and 300 feet high. It made a lovely color study and in three hours got it we'll noted down in colors on canvas, and then turned and sketched south over
 woods and valley and President Ehot's and Bear Island lighthouse, islands and ocean.
 What different pictures. It is hard work to go on morning and afternoon, too, in
 that way! But opportunity is the golden
 spot of time. Take it or you lose it, per,
 haps forever. That days work counted
 me $35 for copy of each. But that is { small way of looking at nature. Amii
 such scenes dollars and cents may bt needed to prolong your visit as mine wal for three monts. Amateur art may b.
 turned to account sometimes. I thinl mine availed from first to last about $10( | in this tour.
 Before MT. Clement left me he pointed
 out boulder up on Sargent Mountain'
 steep rock wall about one-third mile il air line distance from us, but seven hun
 dred feet above the lake and 1000 fee
 above sea level. It looked like a pebbl on a vast stone shelf MT. 0. said
 was about twenty feet long, proportional
 width and thickness and that the grea 7 Swiss-American scientist "Agassiz visited
 it when at Mount Desert" This boulde
 goes in proof of an ice drift over noun
 tains at some age or other. But I hav still different proof for those who neet any proof somewhat alike simply as showing where the corners or sharl
 edges of an ice borne stone of great firm
 ness furrowed the superficial horizonta
 rock summit in streaks several inche.
 deep, eight or ten inches wide and man,
 feet long. I chanced upon them acci
 dentally while out in the fields some othe
 year looking around for something tt
 sketch at Norfolk, charming Norfolk 8 1,500 feet above sea level in our owr
 picturesque Connecticut and finally in. al
 upland meadow got a view of the Tah
 comic range ten miles away which suited : | me.
 B But I had read about such scratches, ant f while looking for wintergreen berries SCI 3 what I was not expecting under my feet q Having long been great lover of rock 5 and a close student of their forms, color . l and fractures, I know of my own mint 3 these are no Assures, but have really beer ;; channeled out by some immense fore grinding along and cutting in as dia
 mond cuts into glass, only wide and dee] furrows as related, There was no boulde
 there; it had passed on and left it's tracl
 for all after ages, but there were boulder.
 of different sizes and kinds on the higl
 lands, a rocky place northerly and easterl,
 of the village.
 Not only so, but over at Salisbury, an other charming village beyond Twin Lake
 and close by the Tahconics, in beautiful
 pine grove, is the largest boulder I eve
 saw close at hand, excepting perhaps
 great- one on the south coast of Blocl Island, whose shores are strewn with bout ders, all of them sea-drifted; and abou Mt. Desert not few, and some large ones
 come to mind in following along the lowe 5 eastern shore of Lomes' sound-eight O. more feet long, very solid and smooth,
 worn.
 On ramble to make drawing of Do,
 mountain and it's steep face or precipice
 the west side of that nearly land locked
 water, my way was close along it, over th
 metamorphic shore rocks, chiefly red ant
 yellow browns.
 Coming to a place where a fine gra,
 granite ledge broke down at these shor
 rocks, I observed it also was partl
 metamorphosed, and was already fractured
 in such vertical lines that I could breal
 out some nice blocks which contained tn
 two sorts well balanced, one section al
 gray, the other black and white granit
 specialization, yet so closely joined the,
 were inseparable. Having got out cub
 ten inches square, fit to stand in @ colleg
 museum of natural history, know that