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photograph (Plate 7). Like the other beaches, this one is composed of 
well-assorted stratified materials with many distinctly rounded pebbles. 
A photograph of a cut in this beach is reproduced as Plate 8. 
About three-quarters of a mile north of this beach, and back of the 
Moorlands Hotel is further evidence of the depression of the land. There 
is 2 rock cave flanked at the base by a number of disrupted boulders, the 
whole region being closely like the present condition at Bass Rocks, 
where the sea is at present beating and rending similar masses of rock 
from the iedges. 
A half mile north of this, along the electric car line from Gloucester 
to Good Harbor Beach, at the base of the hill which lies to the south of 
the road, is an accumulation of stratified material (EK, Plate 1). While 
not exactly like a beach, similar to those at present existing on the 
coast, it does resemble what one would expect to be formed by rapid 
wave work, in a protected bay along a drift-covered coast. 
There are numerous other stratified deposits along this level and below 
it. One of the best elevated beaches along the coast occurs just west of 
Whale Cove, near Turk’s Head Inn (G, Plate 1). This is fully described 
in the accompanying paper by Professor Woodworth. 
Absence of Fossils. — One of the reasons for not having previously 
published the evidence of former depression of the land in Cape Ann has 
been the hope, long deferred, that fossils might be found in some of the 
deposits. I have searched with care in every cut that I have seen on 
Cape Ann in the last sixteen years, and have never found a single fossil 
in the deposits of postglacial age. With the abundance of such fossils in 
the beaches further north, as in Baffin Land, this absence of organic re- 
mains seems difficult to explain, and for a long time led me to question 
whether some other explanation of the phenomena at Cape Ann could 
not be suggested ; but the evidence of depression seems so perfect that, 
notwithstanding the absence of fossils, I feel convinced ; and I am obliged 
to assume that their absence is to be accounted for by adverse condi- 
tions, such as the short stand of the land and the coldness and muddi- 
ness of the water. It must be confessed that when one finds an abun- 
dance of animal life at the very base of the Greenland glacier, in such a 
position as to be thrown to the surface when icebergs break away from 
the glacier, this explanation seems weak. However, the deposits on Cape 
Ann were made at the edge of a rapidly retreating ice front, and marine 
life may not have advanced this far while the land was lower. 
It is, of course, possible that fossils exist here, but have not yet been 
detected. I have been told of the former discovery of fossils in a num- 
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