700 WOODM^ORTH AND MARBUT 



Exte/ision northeast of Cat Rocks. — The best development of 

 moraine north of Cat Rocks is at the Queen's Kitchen, about a 

 mile and a half northeast of the village of Exeter. The name is 

 applied to the most northeasterly of a range of three small hills 

 all of which are largely or wholly morainal. They lie on and rise 

 above the surface of a long gentle, southeastwardly sloping plain. 

 North of the moraine the plain is dotted with bowlders and con- 

 tains many bowlder-filled swamps. South or southeast of the 

 moraine, however, the surface is smoother, the valleys all contain 

 water-laid drift, and bowlders are not so abundant. Bowlders 

 occur occasionally in small patches especially in the heads of 

 shallow valleys though they are of small size. 



The moraine stands sharply above this plain, the highest of 

 the three hills rising about sixty feet above the plain at its base. 

 The most southwesterly of the three hills is lower and longer 

 than the others, rising about thirty feet above the surface of the 

 plain on which it stands. It is covered by till carrying a large 

 number of bowlders. No outcrops of country rock were seen 

 though they were not carefully hunted for. The trend of the 

 hill, like that of the range, is about 25° east of north and its 

 length is about 800 feet. 



The middle member of the range is a small approximately 

 conical hill about twenty-five feet high and not more than 200 feet 

 in diameter at its base. It is not indicated on the Rhode Island 

 topographic map. It lies about 300 feet north of, the last one, and 

 a little way back from a line joining the crests of the other two 

 hills. It contains a larger proportion of bowlders than the last one. 



The other member of the range, and the one to which the 

 name Queen's Kitchen is applied, is the highest of the three. It 

 lies about 1200 feet northeast of the crest of the first one 

 described and rises about sixty feet above the plain at its base. 

 Its whole surface is covered with large bowlders with no fine 

 material near the surface. To all appearances the whole hill is 

 merely a pile of bowlders varying considerably in size but all of 

 them large. The northward slope is steep. The bowlders are 

 not scattered out over the plain in this direction so that the 



