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FRANK BURSLEY TAYLOR 



place rising nearly 

 9CO feet in one- 

 sixth of a mile, 

 thus giving a slope- 

 of forty-five de- 

 grees. Two mo- 

 raines are seen 

 here in one view. 

 The near fore- 

 ground in the cen- 

 ter is the outer end 

 of an esker which 

 turns to the left 

 and then to the 

 south at sharp 

 angles. This esker 

 seems to come out 

 of the ravine of 

 Dunbar brook, and 

 appears to have 

 belonged to a nar- 

 row ice-tongue 

 which emerged 

 from that ravine 

 into the Deerfield 

 valley whence it 

 spread in the 

 shape of an anchor 

 with a short prong 

 up and a longer 

 one down the 

 Deerfield. The 

 hummocky ground 

 under the hill at 

 the right is full of 

 knobs and basins, 

 and is a part of 



