460 PROCEEDINGS OF BALTIMORE MEETING. 



The first paper of the session was — 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE GLACIAL PHENOMENA OF NEWFOUNDLAND, LABRADOR 

 AND SOUTHERN GREENLAND 



BY G. FREDERICK WRIGHT 



Remarks were made by C. D. Walcott. The paper is published in the 

 American Journal of Science, volume xlix, pages 86-94. 



The second paper was as follows : 



HIGH-LEVEL GRAVELS IN NEW ENGLAND 

 BY C. H. HITCHCOCK 



[Abstract] 



The object of this paper is to announce the discovery of glacial lakes in the hydro- 

 graphic basin of lake Memphremagog and adjacent regions, reserving the presenta- 

 tion of details to a later date. This lake is 695 feet above the ocean. The best 

 defined strands are found about the head of the lake in and near Newport, Ver- 

 mont; in the valleys of Clyde river; Barton river, along the Passumpsic railroad, 

 and Black i-iver as far as Craftsbury. These localities are all in Vermont. In 

 Quebec these levels appear at the south base of Owls Head, in Stanstead and on 

 Bunker hill. The levels seem to lie approximately at 970, 1,060 and 1 ,270 feet above 

 the ocean. The lowest is the most distinct. The highest is developed two or three 

 miles northeasterly from Stanstead plain. The drainage is entirely to the north, 

 and the material may have been washed from a terminal moraine of the great ice- 

 sheet, shown by me to extend probably from the Androscoggin lakes, in north- 

 western Maine, across New Hampshire and Vermont to the mouth of the La Moille 

 liver on lake Champlain. In 1861 I described a beach near Fort Kent, in northern 

 Maine, which seems to have about the same level as the lowest of the Memphre- 

 magog strands. I have lately observed with attention a well defined level of 1,500 

 feet above the ocean near the Twin Mountain house, in Carroll, New Hampshire, 

 in the edge of the White Mountain district. It seems to have been another beach- 

 line of a body of glacial water covering the valley of Israels river, a tributary of the 

 Connecticut. In case the present drainage of the Connecticut were obstructed at 

 Fifteen Mile falls and the summit of the Concord and Montreal railroad at White- 

 field, the outlet of this lake would have been tributary to the Androscoggin at 

 Gorham, New Hampshire. The col separating this last named Jefferson lake from 

 the earlier Memphremagog lake along the Passumpsic railroad near Barton, Ver- 

 mont, is about 150 feet lower than the abandoned strand at the Twin Mountain 

 house. 



Remarks were made by J. W. Spencer, as follows : 



While I fully appreciate the data collected and views presented by Professor 

 Hitchcock, I cannot accept his conclusions concerning the barriers of ice which he 

 hypothecates for the retention of the water at the levels of the terraces. On a 

 former occasion I presented to this Society reasons of a physical nature why I could 



