THE Q UEEN ' S RI VER MORA INE 7 3 



plains on the two sides of the ice margin is merely one of surface 

 character. One is smooth, the other is bowlder-covered. 



From Cat Rocks southwestward for about two miles the 

 southern margin of the till plain is not sharply defined. It grad- 

 uates southward into the sand and gravel plain, and bowlders are 

 nowhere abundant. This phase is succeeded by a belt extending 

 southwestward to within one and a half miles of Glen Rock vil- 

 lage. The southern border of the till plain is characterized 

 by a thick accumulation of bowlders, almost entirely covering 

 the surface, but not piled up into a ridge. The margin lies along 

 the southern slope of a hill, but it lies north of the northern bor- 

 der of the water-laid drift. Occasional patches of bowlders lie 

 between the margin of the bowlder belt and the northern margin 

 of the water-laid drift. 



About a mile and a half north of Glen Rock village, the 

 moraine turns westward, crossing Beaver River at Hillsdale. 

 The upland east of Hillsdale is covered with bowlders and the 

 streams are all filled with them. The ponding of the head 

 waters of a small brook which flows into Queen's River at Glen 

 Rock is probably due to morainal accumulations. 



Between Hillsdale and the schoolhouse, a mile and a half 

 north of Glen Rock, the moraine is not so well defined as it is 

 further eastward. The bowlders are neither so abundant nor so 

 large. At Hillsdale, however, it again becomes a characteristic 

 bowlder belt. The morainal accumulation consisting mostly of 

 bowlders has ponded the river. The power thus made available 

 was formerly utilized in manufacturing. Down stream from the 

 moraine the valley is filled up to the level of the foot of the 

 moraine with a broad sand plain, but north of it the valley is filled 

 with bowlders. On the slope of the western side of the river 

 valley just back of the village there is an accumulation of very 

 large bowlders, approaching the phase of the moraine developed 

 at Cat Rocks. From this point westward as far as the moraine 

 was traced its development was weak. 



J. B. WOODWORTH. 



C. F. Marbut. 



