Show fVXicro Big Bowlders Come from Wherever the glaciers melted they left an immense amount of Cldriftthat is sand gravel and stones of all sorts which had been frozen in the ice when the glaciers gla-ciers were forming The stones of this drift are of all sizes Some are as small as pebbles others as 4 r large as small houses There is one at I Bradford Mass which measures 30 feet I each way and weighs 4500000 pounds There is another on a ledge in Vermont which is even larger than that and which I must have been carried by the ice across a valley lying 500 feet below where the stone now is showing that the ice was 500 feet thick Great bowlders of trap rock extend I through Connecticut on a line running to Long Island sound and as some of the same kind are found in Long Island the glacier is believed to have crossed the I sound carrying these rocks with it I I I An immense statue of Peter the Great r r in St Petersburg stands on one of these r glacier bowlders of solid granite which weighs three million pounds One of the largest bowlders America is in the Indian village of Mohegan near Montville Conn I The Indians call the rock Shehegan Its top which is flat and as large as the j I floor of a good sized room in reached by a ladder I Sometimes these bowlders are found perched upon bare ledges of rock so nicely nice-ly balanced that though of great weight they may be rocked by the hand They are called rocking stones Near the little Connecticut village of Noank on Long Island sound there is an immense bowlder i called by the people there Jemimys Pulpit j Pul-pit It was formerly arocking stone but i the rock has worn away below it and it I can no longer be moved Teresa C Crof j ton in St Nicholas I |