A Natural Wonder

Countless thousands of years ago vast etretches of glacial deposits carne sliding across the state of New Jersey, mounted the Palisades, pushed their way across the Hudson river, scoured over Manhattan Islandand slid out into the Atlantic ocean, whither they disintegrated and sauk iuto the deep or perhaps glided on to the other shore. But in their ouward march these glaciers left indestructible evidence of their grinding stride, and today al along the palisades the trap rocks and bowlders are worn smooth where the mountains of ice and sand passed over them. Iu some rocks are deep scratches; all pointing eastward and showing which way the glacial deposits drifted. There is the evideuce, mute, but indisputable. Tó the careful obserrer there are numberless other evidences of the presence of glacial influences in the past, but none is more convincing than the tramp bowlder that has finally settled down in the woods iu the heart of Englewood borough. There it sits, a towering mass of rock weighing perhaps 200 tons and restiug upon three points which iu theinselves flnd a purchase on a flat rock that is part of and common to the character of rock which composes the palisades. But, strangely enough and to the wondernient of geologists, the tramp bowlder is red sandstoue from the Jersey hills 25 miles inland, and the pedestal is metamorphite or soft granite. Around thia marvelous monument have grown trees that may perhaps be a century old, and they have completely bedged it in, while the rocK ïtseir naa stood where it stands today for thousands of years. On the pedestal or that part of it which is protected from the actiou of tho elements can be seen the deep ridges aud scars made across its flat surfaoe by the great grindiug pressure of the budy of ice and sand that passed over it countless years ago when New York was ice aud snow ciad and the world was a desolate waste in a state of chaos. This tramp bowlder has cansed geologists much wonderment and is regarded today as one of the finest specimens ever left in the wake of a glacier. It is equally astonudiug as though an explorer should fíud the huil of asteamboat in the Sahara desert. The only way it could get there would be through sonie great convulsión that had lauded it from the sea in the heart of the iulaud sands. -