358 GLACIAL GRAVELS OF MAINE. 



It should also be noted that the extreme stagnation of the Malaspina 

 glacier must favor the solidification of the lower ice and the other causes, 

 whatever they are, for the subglacial streams rising onto the surface of the 

 ice. In cases of rapid glaciers flowing into the sea the subglacial streams 

 are discharged into the sea and do not rise to the sui'face of the ice some 

 miles back from the seas, as is the case of this interesting glacier. 



The ridge described above as found on the ice would probably lose its 

 stratification during the melting of the subjacent ice and in structure 

 resemble Indian Ridge at Andover, Massachusetts, rather than the ordinary- 

 stratified osar. 



