242 A - S - PACKARD, j a ., ON THE GLACIAL PHENOMENA 



and running down stream. The slight sections seen in the lower levels of the moraine ter- 

 races presented by the arrangement of the boulders and shingle in reference to the whole 



reams" Ml tf? reSembk " Ce to the P resent P^or, of the boulders in the mountain 

 streams. A 1 the stones were so arranged as to present a stoss side toward the mass of 

 waters pouring over them - the longer slopes of the stones always facing up s team the 

 steep sides down stream. The stream had arranged the stones large and small with refe 

 ence to ghding over its stony bed with as little hindrance and friction as possible" 



It is thus evident that during the Lake Period, or Epoch of Great Rivers, these White 

 Mountain glens were filled with glacial lakes, restrained by barriers thrown up by tS 



move ZTT^ U^\ &U T Sed FeVi0US P™^,he sea was not sufficient to I 



move, but which yielded to the power of large masses of water running down stream 



tte^ed freT T n f T" ^^T^ of *~ *°B* glacial deposits still ex 

 as tenaced fresh-water beaches on each side of the deep mountain valleys 



Localities of Fossils in New England. Starting from the border of New Brunswick we will 

 rdTa2°ardi: Cnbe " ^ *" ^^ °' ** ** ** " d ** ^ ^ ™* 

 Calai, &™ miles below Calais, on the banks of the St. Croix River, is a deposit de 



scribed to me by Mr. C. B. Fuller of Portland, which agrees as stated bv hi™ 

 with the clays of Eastport and Campo Bello Island. Mr. Fuller found he L^trunc^Z 

 abundance, forty-five feet above the level of the river 



I am also indebted to Mr. Fuller for the following list of shells found by Mr. De Laski 



fee Stn H SeVentee f f; b ° Ve ^ S6Mhree milGS ab ° Ve the F ° X Is ^ d ^-uX 



tl^ttZZT- a bed of marme claj overIaid b ^ a Iayer of " bkie sand " «#&* 



M^arln^T f !jm : t US - AStarte SemiSUhata > *"*» 9ronUnd^ Saneara distorta, 

 Mya aremrw,Mya truncata, Buccmum undulatum, Buccinum tenue Gray, Natica pusilla (aroi 

 landica), Balanus balanoides. j»wum \gron 



Eastport. Pressor A. E Verrill has found at Prince's Point, Eastport, Maine, Nucula an- 



and PjJT- T < X r im i* Iacoma s ^sa, * fi"* Cardium ishndkum, Sancava ruyosa, 

 an iPhohs enspaia Linn These specimens I have seen, and also have collected with Mr 

 C. B Fuller, upon the island of Campo Bello, at the shore opposite Lubec, Leda truncata 

 (portlandva), Macoma sabulosa, Mya arenaria and Buccinum undulatum. These occurred iust 



t™g^ZT mark ' in a blue clay bank twenty feet thick ' restin s on the rocks und - 



Watervilie. J ™ »**<*(! to Professor Hamlin of Waterville College, for a list of fossils from 

 the Waterville clays, which are in the college cabinet and were labelled by Pro- 

 fessor Loomis several years since. Among them were Purpura topiUus, and a Natica There 

 were several specimens of Buccinum gronlandicun, The list also contained -Mya arenaria 

 Nucula ant iq ua, N. temus Mytdus edulis, Fusus tornatus, Balanus, and remains of a Crustacean' 

 together with a crab s claw." ' 



Lhmt/f r7 S l M e th ° Se '' ^^^ C ° ntain Astarie BmMi Leach > **■* ^nprcssa 

 Linn, (ell/ptica) and Mya arenaria. ^ 



1 My attention having been called to this method of ar- Antiouilv nf Mn« T ^. • ■. i 

 rangement of stones forming the bed of a stream by a oar comn , a ♦ " . °" SP ° t0 eXte " d "' e 



agraph, and wood-cut illustration, in Sir Charles LveU's COmpa " SOn to the mate " aI cora P°-S *« ^aine terrace. 



