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Mass. Its topography is 

 shown in the middle 

 ground and is very char- 

 acteristic, the wave-like 

 knolls ranging from ten to 

 fifteen feet in height, with 

 sags and occasional shal- 

 low basins between. A 

 broken esker leads to this 

 moraine from the direc- 

 tion of Cummington. The 

 deposit is about a mile 

 wide from north to south. 

 On its outer southward 

 slope there are a few knolls 

 of coarser composition 

 and a small gravel train 

 heads at the moraine. 

 This moraine appears to 

 have blocked the original 

 valley of Westfield river, 

 which formerly went di- 

 rectly south from Cum- 

 mington, but now goes 

 around to the east 

 through a narrower valley 

 past Swift River. 



Fig. 2 is two miles 

 north of Stamford, Vt., 

 and shows a remarkably 

 fine specimen of the de- 

 posits of an ice-tongue. 

 The rounded knolls to 

 the right and left below 

 the higher hills are mainly 

 morainic, and are twenty 

 to thirty-five feet or more 



