Route 2 also leads eastward from Greenfield to the French King Bridge and Millers Falls. The highway out from Greenfield turns north (0.3) along the west front of the trap ridge, near the summit of which several individual lava flows are represented by separate sets of columns superimposed one upon the other (see p. 26). The underlying bedded sandstones outcrop in the lower wooded slopes. A road branches right (1.7) to Turners Falls and crosses the lava ridge, but the main highway continues straight to a sharp curve near Falls River (3.4). Pillow-shaped masses of lava characterize the bottom of the lava flow and lie above conglomerate in the bluff to the right. The valley of Falls River is a fault zone slicing across the lava sheet, which reappears at the lookout-parking place at Turners Falls (3.5). The extent to which the waterfall has receded (see pp. 58-59) may be judged from the length of the gorge. The route continues left past the bridge entrance (3.6). Ripple-marked red shales—once Triassic muds in which stray dinosaurs left their tracks—outcrop by the roadside (4.6 to 5.7), and coarse conglomerate beds (5.9) overlie the shales and dip steeply towards the river. Somewhat farther east a broad sand plain (6.0 to 6.8) of glacial outwash (see p. 59), which ends at the French King gorge, buries the Triassic bedrock, but once again conglomerate appears and forms the west wall of the gorge. Pre-Triassic crystalline rocks (6.9) likewise outcrop on the western cliffs, and form a narrow ridge between the present course of the river and the pre-glacial channel, which lies below the glacial delta (7.0 to 7.9) of Millers River. The road to Northfield turns left (7.9) and another (8.7) leads right to Millers Falls, but Route 2 continues east, climbing high above the river (9.9), which flows through a narrow gorge. Gneiss with horizontal banding outcrops (11.2) in mesa-like hills north of the highway, which descends to a point (12.5) that was 5.5 feet under water during the 1936 flood. The road continues near the water’s edge for almost half a mile, and the narrow gorge through gneiss ends at Erving (13.8). Here the valley widens out into a hilly lowland which has been developed on schist with occasional bands of gneiss. The road follows the north bank of the river across this lowland to Orange (17.9). Route 2 continues to Athol where the Daniel Shays highway enters from the south, but an alternate route, which turns right in the center of Orange and crosses Millers River (18.0), provides a preferable short-cut to the Daniel Shays Highway (21.8). This section of road is lined with stone fences which memorialize the combined labors of the great Ice Sheet and the early settlers.