pies the extreme summit, as shown in the print.
The first feeling, on approaching it, was one of
disappointment at its size, but this feeling soon
subsided in the interest of its antiquity and national
associations. It is a large, but not enormous
boulder of syenite,* of the erratic, block
groupe, and, consequently, geologically foreign
to the location. There are no rocks of this species
in situ, I believe, nearer to it, in a northerly
or easterly direction, than the Kayaderosseras or
the Adirondack mountains.f The summit upon
which, partly embedded, it reposes, is now a
cleared field, in grass. A few primitive and secondary
boulders, all of lesser' size, are strown
about the ridge, and several of weight and magnitude
rest upon its flanks, and in the valleys at
its base. One of the largest of these is the white
stone at the spring, which has been spoken of, I
think, in some early notices of the Oneidas, as
the true Oneida stone; but this opinion is erroneous,
by the concurrent testimony of red and
white men, cognizant of the facts; whom I consulted.
This white stone, Represented^ on the
succeeding page, has been removed by the proprietor
of the land, from its ancient position near
the spring, to constitute part of a stone fence; dt
is a carbonate of lime. •
*A specimen of the rock before me, brought thence, consists
of flesh-colored feld-spar, (f uariz, and hornblende.
t lf the passage of the Mohawk through the Astorenga or
Astogan hills, at Little Fafb, discloses syenite, I arp not aware
of the fact.
,r Tshejoam, one of the Oneidas, who served as
my guide in visiting this interesting location,
took me to see still another stone, of note, lying
a mile or more distant, in a southerly direction,1
on a farm of Gen, Knoxr * This stqne, of which
a figure isjgiven on the next page, I found to be
a large boulder of dark, compact limestone, with
organic remains..
It was observable thqt the encrinites contained
in this mass, Were red. My Indian guide would
have this color to be the result of the ancient
Indian .war paint. But the most striking characteristic
of this rock, aside from its massy and
flattened size;: and channelled centre, consists
in. the evidences it affords cf the action of Water,
in rounding and polishing it. In several places,
my guide would have this wearing.eflect to have
been produced by the rubbing and* sharpening