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GEOLOGY OF OLD HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MASS. 



any evidence of an iuterraediate water stand, the rapidity of the decline of 

 flows between rocky banks to the month of the Deei-field River and is 

 bordered only by narrow terraces until it reaches the Hadley Lake basin 

 at Sunderland. 



THE LATER TERRACES OR MEADOWS OF THE CO?rNECTICUT«I]S" THE 



HADLET LAKE. 



The Sunderland, Hattield, Hadley, and Northampton meadows, the 

 most famous farming- lands and the earliest-settled portion of old Hampshu-e 



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Fig. 47 — Sketch of the pomt*of th« Northampton Meadow from Mount Holyoke. to show tliat the meadow is a composite of 

 many islands. Except when seen just before sunset, the meadow seems an almost perfect plain. 



County, make up the area built by the Connecticut since its shrinkage 

 to near- its present dimensions, in its passage from Sugar Loaf to Mount 

 Holyoke. 



The old lake bottom lay so low, especially in all the area north of 

 Mount Warner, in Hattield and North Hadley, that after one has followed 

 down the slope from the high lake bench to and across this bottom to the 

 scarp, a few feet in height, above the oldest of these later terraces (a scarp 

 which registers the failhest outward swing of the river), and has failed to find 



