"if the Chagy mantles like that of Rutland but beneath the latter, occurs the heavily bedded dolomites and sandstones of the Beech mountains. In places there are said to be in the Potsdam Crin- bedded sandstone. All of this area was once covered by the northwestal arms of the Lake Champlain. North of Sudbury, the country soon becomes a fine farm country, because in all the fine places, the land was covered by the Champlain sea, and the Champlain Clays smear out the ground and make good but sticky farm lands. The first farm yet seen and found in the afternoon lotus of Hyde France started in 1671, is one of the most southern of these places. Set to Middle bury at 6 P.M. and som after, I begin to rain. Here an entirely smooth face of Ordovician limestone north of Sudbury. The Taconic Range goes as far north as Sudbury.