Counted one hundred cortical layers in a black walnut—centre broke so
as to prevent counting the whole number, but by measuring estimated one
hundred and forty more. If so, the field was deserted in 1605.
The present proprietor of the farm comprising the Oneida stone, spring,
butternut grove, &c. is Job Francis. He first hired the land of
Hendrick’s widow; afterwards he and Gregg were confirmed by the State.
The white stone at the spring, a carbonate of lime, is not the _true_
Oneida stone.
The Oneida stone is a _syenite_—a boulder.