Plates Illustrating the Geology and Scenery of Massachusetts

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I Geological Map of Massachusetts

II Autumnal Scenery View in Amherst

III View in Hadley

IV View Through the Gorge Between Holyoke and Tom
V West View from Holyoke
VI View at South Hadley Falls
VII View of Sugar Loaf Mountain
VIII View at the Confluence of Deerfield and Connecticut Rivers
IX View of Turners Falls

X View of a Gorge or 'the Glen' in Leyden

XI Drawings of Organic Remains

XIII Organic Remains

XIV Organic Remains

XV Map of the Connecticut Valley in CT and MA

XVI Direction of the Strata

XVII East and West Sections in North and Central MA

XVIII East and West Sections in South and Eastern MA

Plates Illustrating the Geology and Scenery of Massachusetts

Accompanies Edward Hitchcock, Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoology of Massachusetts, volume 2 (Amherst: Press of J. S. and C. Adams, 1833)

Plate I: Geological Map of Massachusetts. (folding, and hand colored)

Plate II: Autumnal Scenery: view in Amherst. (hand colored)

Plate III: A View in Hadley.

Plate IV: Gorge Between Holyoke and Tom.

Plate V: West View From Holyoke.

Plate VI: South Hadley Falls.

Plate VII: Sugar Loaf Mountain, Deerfield.

Plate VIII: Confluence of Connecticut and Deerfield Rivers.

Plate IX: Turner's Falls.

Plate X: Gorge or Glen, Leyden.

Plate XI: Organic Remains:

Figs 1, 2, 6-10: Vegetable Impressions and Remains

Fig 3: Cast of a Venus

Fig 4: Cast of a Turbo?

Fig 5: Cast of a Tellina

Fig 17: Mould of an Orthocera

Figs 11-15: Shark's Teeth

Fig 15: a Crocodile's Tooth

Figs 18-22: Unknown Animal Relics from the Newest Tertiary

Plate XII: Organic Remains:

Figs. 23-25, 28: Vertebrae probably of Sharkes

Figs. 26-27: Alcyonia?

Figs. 29-30, 32-33: perhaps Radiated Animals

Fig. 31: Fossil Crab.

Plate XIII: Organic Remains:

Figs 34-36: Impressions of Gorgoniae

Fig. 37: Shark's Tooth

Figs.38-39: Fucoides in Sandstone

Fig. 40: Cast of a Venus

Figs. 41-43: Casts of Calamites, Cyclopteria? and Nevropteria?

Plate XIV: Organic Remains:

Figs. 44-46

Fig. 47: Encrini

Fig 48: Ictholites

Plate XV: Map of the Valley of the Connecticut in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Plate XVI: Map of the Direction of the Strata in Massachusetts

Plate XVII: East and West Sections of Massachusetts

Plate XVIII: East and West Section across the Southern part of Massachusetts; Section across the Eastern Part of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Plate XIX: A Tabular and Systematic View of the Rocks and Their Imbedded Minerals in Massachusetts

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