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very little lower than King's mountain. The general surface of the 

 top proved to be nearly flat. It was strewn with loose and rounded 

 boulders; clay and sand filling uj) the interstices between rocky ])arts, 

 to a general even surface, more soil than rock. Did the water which 

 undoubtedly made, and at the same time levelled AV^elch's terrace, lise 

 230 feet higher and level also the summit of the mountain, or was it 

 ice that levelled and tilled uj) its interstices'? This question I would 

 not undertake to decide, without abundant and conclusive evidence. 

 Such it was not in ray power to jH'OCure in a day's excursion. But the 

 evidence as it stands, including th^ lines of the]sketeh, I think you will 

 agree with me, is in favour of water. T do not remember liaving seen 

 anywhere else the results of ice action displaying so nice a sense of the 

 horizontal, u[)on a mountain top. According to the testimony of Mr. 

 Welch (whatever it may be worth) clays and sands continued in- 

 definitely northwards on the mountain along with tlie boulders, filling 

 up and levelling up irregualities for many miles iip the Gatineau valley 

 at slightly increasing levels, until it assumed th(> character of a plain, 

 rather than that of a mountain. 



Not without interest in the same connection ure the fucts reported 

 by New England geologists, and quoted by Sir W'ni. Logan, in regard 

 to the terraces fringing the mountainous region directly across the 

 pleistocene sea of the St. Lawrence from Kings INtountain. At Kipton 

 Vermont there is a terrace 2196 ft. above the sea- At Lake Memphre- 

 magog are found clays 798. ft., and a terrace 1204 ft. above the sea. 

 In the White Mountains Prof. Hitchcock reports terraces 2449, and 

 2GG5 ft. above the sea : and the list could be greatly extended. No 

 marine fossils appear to have been found in any of these terraces. 

 Is the negative evidence conclusive that they are not sea terraces ] 



September 17th the Club proceeded uj) the Gatineau valley to Kirk's 

 Ferry, where the leda clays, themselves in the form of lofty hills and 

 benches, picturesquely surround old hummocks and islands of Lauren- 

 tian rock, the combination producing a novel and jtleasing landscape. 

 Mountain and terrace contrasting with ^terraced plains furnLsh many 

 ideal landscapes along these shores of the glacial Laurentian gulf or 

 sea, in this part of Canada. The clays of Kii'k's Ferry appear to have 

 been cut off from those of Chelsea by an intervening canon, but they 



