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The valley of the Kennebec is very beautiful. Below Bingham 

 it expands, and at Solon and further down the terraces are so wide 



Fig. 50. 



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Section at Carney^s. 



G.G. Solid rock, 



H. Bank of the river on the west side, 

 only three feet high, hardly worthy 

 of being called a terrace. 



K. First terrace, 73 feet. 



L. Second terrace, 113 feet. 



M. Third terrace, 193 feet. 



^. Kennebec river. 



B. First terrace, east side, 25 feet. 



C. Second terrace, 80 feet above the river, 



and only 25 feet wide at the top. 



D. Third terrace, 110 feet. 



E. Fourth terrace, 136 feet. 



F. Fifth terrace, 180 feet. 



that several days' work will be required to map them with accu- 

 racy. The great plain in Solon is a terrace. At Skowhegan, and 

 perhaps further up, the terraces are more interesting, because they 

 contain marine relics, showing a combination of fluviatile and 

 oceanic agencies in their origin. A similar terrace extends up the 

 Wasseronset river north of Skowhegan. We would compare 

 the terraces about Skowhegan with the delta terraces of the Win- 

 aoski river near Burlington, Vt., which we have described in 

 detail in the Final Report upon the Geology of Vermont. 



Below Skowhegan the valley of the Kennebec is less beautiful, 

 because it is so wide that it cannot always be taken in at one view. 

 Occasionally the terraces are well developed, as at Waterville and 

 Augusta. A careful map of them through the whole course of the 

 river would be an object of great interest, and having its practical 

 bearings also. We can produce at any time our map of the ter- 

 races between Bingham and the Forks. 



We were interested to find a few terraces at the mouths of many 

 of the streams on Mooschead lake. These clearly indicate that the 

 lake has been successively at higher levels than at present. The 

 low land at Kineo is entirely made land ; and one can easily detect 

 four different levels. These seem to have been quietly deposited 

 in the Ice of Mt. Kineo. The heavy north winds drive around the 



