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Starting Saturday morning, the excursion will climb the west face of Hoosac Mt., studying the Cambrian and Pre-Cambrian formations, then visiting their contact on top of the mountain, and thence going to the central shaft of the tunnel where the dumps illustrate many varieties of these rocks. In the afternoon, proceeding over the crest of the mountain to the station at the east portal of the tunnel, something will be seen of the topography of the area between the Connecticut and Hoosac Rivers...
Starting Saturday morning, the excursion will climb the west face of Hoosac Mt., studying the Cambrian and Pre-Cambrian formations, then visiting their contact on top of the mountain, and thence going to the central shaft of the tunnel where the dumps illustrate many varieties of these rocks. In the afternoon, proceeding over the crest of the mountain to the station at the east portal of the tunnel, something will be seen of the topography of the area between the Connecticut and Hoosac Rivers...
Excursion 2.- Friday, Oct. 11. Professor J. E. Wolff. The Cambrian and Pre-Cambrian rocks of Hoosac Mountain...
...repentent souls, before they could enter Paradise, had become, in the thirteenth century, one of the doctrines of the church, and had assumed the character of a dogma. The position of Purgatory was generally thought to be within the earth, but Dante represents it to us as a mountain arising from a solitary island in the southern waters, which in his day were thought unnavigable...
...circles of Hell are formed by converging rocks, which ended in the centre with a deep pit. The ledges of Purgatory, on the other hand, are formed by the retreating of the walls. On the very summit of the mountain of Purgatory is the earthly Paradise, through which the purified soul must pass before it can enter Heaven. In Hell sinful deeds are punished, but in Purgatory it is not an action but a disposition, of which the sinner is purged. Here the soul welcomes suffering as an approach to the utmost felicity. There is terrible suffering, but suffering always...