waves followed e 1 Se guid: succession, xia I could — 
distinctly hear the mgton of the larger and smaller rocks, — 
brought in and carried back, as I thought, more than 
hundred yards by every wave, and I could sensibly 
the earth tremble under my feet from the quantity and — 
great weight of some of them. I considered that i* 
whole country must once, and for a great length of time 
have been orn to a great depth with this now retired 
ocean. If we know not what has become of the waters, 
yet surely She we see their effects on every hill, in every 
valley and on every plain, and can distinctly follow their re~ 
tiring footsteps, from the highest mountzin to this very spot, 
where the same cause is still in active operation, producing 
the same result, we must yield to the conviction that the 
cause of all these effects is one and the same. Every sub- 
ways rve in the outlet of a deep valley between a 
posited, the quantity of which bears a very just sronorries 
to the length and depth-of the valley. Streams of water 
_ar any have flowed out of these valleys after the sea re- 
we cut channels through this deposited gravel, but 
er could have ned any effect in rounding it. On 
the great valley of Connecticut river, as else- 
an Ak nas deposit of clay, loam aud sand 
more than one hundred feet. The river has _ 
m ich of this deposit, and in such a manner as 
dou doubt as to its depth, or what has become of it. 
his valley, it would seem, was once empty, or occupied 
ene by sg for ap Bs have been found in digging for wa-_ 
rnpike npr map sodas Gobla be caus 
iatistactory Granite in place is first found about three 
