INDEX TO PART III. 



379 



rage. 



Elevation of land, as cause of glacial 

 period, 7, 213, 324, 329. ^^7- ap- 

 parent, due to changes of sea-level, 18 



Elizabeth islands, .... 



Ellis river glaciers, .... 



Embossed ledges, 4, 178, iSo, 195, 

 206, 219, 223, 225, 



Ephraim mountain. Me., 



Equinoxes, precession of 



Erie clay, .... 



Erosion by ice-sheet, 5, 8, 17S, 285 

 308; by rivers, 15, 38, 52, 59, 7o 

 82, 124, 143, 232, ; by the sea, 303 , 

 by rivulets, producing irregular 

 outlines, 41 ; total in state, includ 

 ing pre-glacial, . . . .178 



Eskers (kames), . . . .12 



Exeter river, . . . . 150, 164 

 " sienite boulders, . . . 264 



Exploration of modified drift, . . 19 



Fairlee pond, . 



Fall mountain. 



Falls, Fifteen-miles, 24-26; below 

 do., 26, 39; on Sugar river, 50 

 Bellows, 53 ; Livermore, 72 ; near 

 Bristol, 74; in Franklin, 77, 123 

 in Concord, 80 ; Amoskeag, 95 

 250 ; in Nashua, 99 ; on Contoo 

 cook river, 102, 106, in ; in An 

 trim, 119; on Androscoggin river 

 140 ; on Salmon Falls river. 



Faults in modified drift, . 



301 

 24s 

 204 

 227 

 227 

 6 

 176 



Faunas, . 

 Fifteen-Miles fall 

 Flint, William F. 

 Floated boulders. 



39. 



150 



[07 



. 282, 284, 338 

 24-26 



19. 173. 350, 352 

 117, 158, 160, 162 

 276, 320 

 Flood-plain, present — see Intervals; 

 of Champlain period — see Plains; 



intermediate, 

 Floods of the Champlain period, 



49' 58 

 3,328 



339 



• 179 



• 275 

 243. 338 



35. 52 

 9.28s 



Flumes of White Mountains, 

 Flume boulder, 269; mountai 

 Fluvial deposits, 

 Folded layers of clay, 

 Formation of till. 



Fossils, 18, 38, 83, 163, 165-167, 281, 282 

 326, 337 

 Fractured ledges, , , . .178 

 Franklin, Sir John .... 320 

 French pond, Haverhill, ... 30 

 Frost, fracturing ledges, 179 ; action 

 on Mt. Washington, . . . 207 



Fuller, C. B 281 



Furrows — see Siria"; lunoid, . .182 



Gaps in Connecticut kame, 



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Geikie, on cause of glacial period, 

 5 ; on kames, 14, 174; on glaciated 

 stones, 205, 279 ; on "drums." 288, 

 307 ; on till and intercalated beds, 326 

 Geodetic positions determined by U. 

 S. Coast Survey, .... 375 



Geological map 371 



Giant's grave, 62 



Glacial drift, 9, 10, 176, 286, Chap- 

 ter II ; sections, 290 ; depth, 292 ; 



map 323 



Glacial periods, indications of, 4, 28, 

 285 ; cause, 5, 314, 324; date and 

 length, 6, 327: order of events, 

 337. See Ice-sheet . 

 Glacial periods, indications of for- 

 mer ... 6, 274, 283, 285 

 Glacial rivers, 11-14, 44, 303; sub- 

 glacial, .... 308, 318 

 Glaciated stones, 9, 205, 260, 277-279, 286 

 Glaciers, local, 212, 215, 236, 239, 

 337; latest, 230-249; in Bethle- 

 hem (Agassiz), 234 : in the White 

 Mountains, 239 ; in Vermont, 250 ; 

 in Greenland, 5,315; in the Alps, 

 4, 7, 314; in Scandinavia and 

 Scotland (ice-sheets), . . -315 

 Glacis terraces, . . . 33, 35 

 Glen house, .... 209, 210 

 Gravel ridges — see Kames. 

 Gravitation, causing marine suhmer- 



^g^'^cf 18,329-333 



Gray clay, . 94,153-155,158-161 



333-337 

 Great rock, Wentworth, . . ,271 

 Green Mountains, striae, . . , 203 

 Green Mountain Giant, . . . 265 

 Greenland, . . . 5, 8, 315-324 

 Ground-moraine, 9, 176, 205, 235, 282 

 287, 292, 308, 318 

 Gullies in modified drift, . 41, 46 



Gunstock mountain, stride, 201 ; boul- 

 ders, 272 ; river, .... 130 



Hairs stream, .... 20, 338 

 Hardpan (lower till), . 9, 176, 283 



Haverhill, Mass., series of kames, . 170 

 Hawes, George W. . 286, 333-336 



Hayes, Dr. I. I., 316; John L, 166, 173 

 Heights along Connecticut river, 59- 

 61; along Merrimack river, 102; 

 at Orange and Newbury summits, 

 65 ; in the lake district, 103, 121 ; 

 along Contoocook river, etc., 119; 

 in Dover, 156; on Long Island, 

 304 ; relative heights of land and 



sea, 18, 329 



Highest normal terraces, 16, 61, 103 



Hills enclosed by modified drift, 38, 

 49, 96; of glacial drift, 287-309; 

 of modified drift, . . 304 



