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region to the north where the pass widens out. There they become 

 obscured by the overlying d'-eposit of alluvium. 



Phillips Moraine 



At the southern end of Bulwagga mountain there are moraines 

 on its eastern face. An old and little used road between the George 

 Gage place and the Phillips house skirts the base of a gigantic 

 moraine. This moraine consists of erratics of all sizes from 

 smallest pebbles to immense boulders. It arises from the 340 foot 

 terrace of sandy loam. At 438 feet (A. T.) there is a wide slanting 

 terrace covered with small stones. At the back of this terrace the 

 moraine rises again with a steep, rocky ascent and forms a ridge 

 extending northeast by southwest at an altitude of 720 feet 

 (according to the United States Geological Survey map). It lies 

 against an outlying spur of Bulwagga mountain, for its southwest 

 aspect shows outcropping ledges of gneiss. Upon this spur as a 

 core the moraine was built up — a huge pile of transported stones. 

 West of it lies an open, upland valley. The northern side of this 

 valley is formed by the precipitous face of Bulwagga mountain. 

 This valley may well have held a small marginal pond at one time. 

 Even now, its lowest part is wet and ill drained, but the remainder 

 of the valley floor is covered with a sheet of sandy till which is 

 very heavily interspersed with boulders. Many of them are Pots- 

 dam sandstone, and many are blue Ordovician limestones such as 

 occur the length of Lake Champlain. There can be no doubt that 

 the ice pushed up into here from the main valley bearing with it 

 these erratics, and that it did not come from the Adirondacks to 

 the north and west. The northern side of this little valley shows 

 other piles of morainic rubble which slope upward onto the granite 

 ledges of the mountain itself. Here a little moraine of sand forms 

 a very pretty crescent on the valley floor, with concave face to the 

 northeast, and is evidently the terminal moraine of a tiny ice lobe. 

 Its top is at 655 feet (A. T.). 



Russell Street Road Moraine 



On the road known as Russell street between the Port Henry 

 road and White Church, some great rubble moraines are to be found 

 (see map 5). They lie just above that part of the road that skirts 

 the base of Bulwagga's southern spur. About one-half of a mile 

 east of White 'Church, and just west of the house occupied by 

 Mr Hayford, the moraines on the mountain side show a profile 



