THE QUEEN'S RIVER MORAINE 701 



change from the even till plain to the bowlder-covered hill is 

 sudden. The southern slope is more gradual. The bowlders are 

 strung out southeastwardly from the foot of the hill for a distance 

 of several hundred feet. At the foot of the northern slope there 

 is a considerable accumulation of bowlders but they lie just at the 

 foot of the hill and are not scattered out over the plain. They 

 are in just the attitude that they would assume if they had been 



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 Fig. 7.- — Diagram of the Queen's Kitchen phase of the moraine. 



piled up against the steep front of the ice and had fallen down 

 when the ice receded. 



At Cat Rocks the moraine is accumulated on a locally steeper 

 slope than the general slope of the plain, so that the top of the 

 accumulation rises little if any above the level of the plain on its 

 northern side while at Queen's Kitchen the moraine rises sharply 

 above the plain on all sides. (Fig. 7.) 



Between Cat Rocks and the Queen's Kitchen no well-defined 

 bowlder moraine exists. There is, however, a well-defined south- 

 ern limit in the bowlder-dotted till plain lying north of the sup- 

 posed position of the ice front. To the south of an irregular line 

 connecting the two localities, the surface drift is water-laid ; to 

 the north it is ice-laid. South of this line, bowlders are never 

 seen, excepting scattered ones lying on the higher lands. North 

 of it they are thickly strewn over the surface. It does not appear 

 that the thickly bowlder-covered phase of the till plain extends 

 southward beneath the gravel and sand deposits. South of the 

 northern border of the water-laid drift there are numerous hills 

 which rise well above the level of this deposit, but they carry few 

 bowlders. They all have a smooth outline with only a veneer 

 of drift and the country rock is exposed in many places on them. 



North of the Queen's Kitchen there is no prominent bowlder 



