. The geology of New Hampshire : a report comprising the results of explorations ordered by the legislature. hole stone before splitting was said byJackson to include 32,000 cubic feet, and to weigh 2,286 tons. Otherlarge fragments of the same rock occur to the west and south. Thebuilding shown in the figure is a school-house. It is about a mile and ahalf south-west from the village. Elephant Rock. This boulder is situated in Newport, within a fewfeet of the summit of Pike hill, fully 1,500 feet above the level of thesea. It is composed of graphic granite. Its length is about 29 feet,and its h
. The geology of New Hampshire : a report comprising the results of explorations ordered by the legislature. hole stone before splitting was said byJackson to include 32,000 cubic feet, and to weigh 2,286 tons. Otherlarge fragments of the same rock occur to the west and south. Thebuilding shown in the figure is a school-house. It is about a mile and ahalf south-west from the village. Elephant Rock. This boulder is situated in Newport, within a fewfeet of the summit of Pike hill, fully 1,500 feet above the level of thesea. It is composed of graphic granite. Its length is about 29 feet,and its height not far from 23 feet. The rock is represented in Fig. 56. Dr. Jackson says, in his report (p. 100),—Some immense blocks ofgranite occur in Northumberland, on the estate of Mr. Mills Olcott, of 268 SURFACE GEOLOGY, Hanover. One of them has the following dimensions: 30 feet long, 18feet high, 27 feet wide, and contains 4,580 cubic feet. The other is 32feet long, 6 feet high, 9 feet wide, and contains 1,152 cubic feet. It is alight-colored granite, of excellent quality for building. These blocks of. Fig. 56.—Elephant Rock, Newport. granite are different from any rocks found in place in the immediatevicinity. The nearest granite ledge is one mile north of it, but is of adifferent kind. The original bed must be some distance to the north-ward. Conway Boulders. Prof. E. J. Houston describes a large boulder, nearthe house of E. S. Stokes, North Conway, in much detail in the journalof the Franklin Institute, Volume LXH, 1871. He calls it the Pequaw-ket boulder. It is of coarse granite, with a preponderance of feldspar,considerable quartz, and very little mica. The general form is that of aparallelepiped, one of whose longer sides is partly buried. The lengthis 52 feet 6 inches; greatest breadth, 21 feet; greatest height, 33 feet 2inches; and it is estimated to weigh 2,300 tons. Several large fragmentssurround the mass, seemingly once connected with it. One is 31 feet 3inches
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