^^ teresting objects in the ^^^g: village of North Salem, is an immense granitic ^;g boulder or rock, weigh- ^^ ing sixty tons, or upwards, supported about three feet from the ground on the projecting points of five smaller lime stone rocks. This immense block Boulder Stone. vicwcd from the valley

beneath has much the appearance of a huge mammoth ascending the hill. From its

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weather beaten sides the Indian magician and priest is presumed to have deciphered the destinies of his tribe. It stands on the land of T. C. Quick.

In the vicinity of the rock is situated the paper mill of Epenetus Howe. Esq. ; also the saw and grist mill of Mr. D. Hunt. We must not omit to mention there is a very fine chalybeate spriijg, on the property of Mr. Howe, issuing from a bank, upon the side of Mulighticoos river ; the waters of which are said to be highly medicinal. , • ' ' .

Upon the old parsonage properly, west of the Presbyterian church, resides Epenetus WaHace. M. D., a distinguished member of the medical profession, and for many years a magistrate of this town. Dr. Wallace is the youngest son of John Wallace, Esq., for along period senior warden of St. James's church, and grand-son of James AVallace, formerly of Ridgefield, Connecticut, a native of Lanarkshire, Scotland, and a scion of the parent stock from which the renowned Sir William Wallace descended.