382 WILLIAM HERBERT HOBBS 
and Mount Ktaadn in Maine’ would appear to supply near parallels 
to the sculpture just described, since the “gulfs” of the districts 
have been clearly recognized as cirques. Tarr has claimed that 
the mountain glaciers which sculptured the cirques on Mount Ktaadn 
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Fic. 13.—Map of portions of the James Ross and Snow Hill Islands of West Ant- 
arctica. (After Otto Nordenskjéld.) 
were subsequent to the continental glaciation of the region. This 
is disputed by Goldthwait, who brings forward evidence to prove 
that in the White Mountains the mountain glaciers were antecedent 
to the continental glaciation which shaped the higher and flatter 
rock surfaces. We hardly see how there could fail to be glacial 
~R.S. Tarr, ‘The Glaciation of Mt. Ktaadn,” Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. XL 
(1900), pp. 433-48. 
