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where it emerges from the woods into an open space. Here at its 

 north end it is composed of irregular and rounded stones, and is 

 unmistakably of morainic nature. The boulders are such rocks as 

 occur in native ledges to the north, gneisses, Paleozoic limestones, 

 and so forth. Angular pieces of Potsdam sandstone were noticed. 



Slope to £asfn/ard 



Fig. 2. Diagrammatic sketch of the area adjacent to the base of Buck 

 mountain, showing morainic ridge and terraces and marginal channel 



These do not indicate, necessarily, transportation by berg or pan ice, 

 since outcrops of this sandstone occur as near as a mile away, about 

 Crown Point Center, and if these pieces did come from such nearby 

 sources, their transportation in the glacier would not have sufficed 

 to wear oflf their edges and corners. The moraine terrace is inter- 

 rupted here by a breach about 75 yards wide (figure 2 and plate i, 



