of the North American Ice-Sheet. 203 
course it appears to turn to the southeast, passing into the sea 
two miles west of Point Judith. This angle corresponds to a 
similar one which was probably formed in the extreme moraine 
at Block Island, whence it also seems to have extended first to 
the southeast, in which direction very rocky fishing-ground is 
found at a distance of ten miles from that island. 
The next appearance of the northern moraine is in the Eliza- 
beth Islands, where the position of Cuttyhunk, Penikese and - 
Nashawena Islands corresponds to that of No Man’s Land, Gay 
Head and the hills of Chilmark in the southern moraine, indi- 
cating that angles occur again in them both, respectively at 
Penikese and at Gay Head. Heights of the later moraine on 
the Elizabeth Islands and Cape Cod, are as follows: highest 
portion of Penikese, about 100 feet; of Cuttyhunk, Nasha- 
wena, Pasque and Naushon Islands, about 175; the Quisset 
Hills, west of Falmouth village, about 150; station of the Uni- 
ted States Coast Survey, a mile east of West Falmouth, 198 ; 
the Ridge Hills, extending thence to the angle of this series 
near North Sandwich, 150 to 200 feet; southwest from Sand- 
wich village, about 225; Bourne’s Hill, a Coast Survey station, 
two miles south-southeast from Sandwich, the highest point of 
the whole series, 297; the Discovery Hills, including the last 
and extending eastward, 250 to 150; Shoot Flying Hill in 
Barnstable, about 200; German’s Hill in Yarmouth, 138; 
This moraine forms the entire chain of the Elizabeth Islands, 
fifteen miles long, with an average width of one mile. Their 
n hold small ponds. Their 
on the peninsula of Cape Cod the same belt of hills, continuing 
With its width, contour and material unchanged, bends within 
a few miles to a course nearly due north. A railroad cutting 
thirty feet deep in these deposits near Wood's Hole, and shal- 
lower sections on the Quisset Hills, 1 
yellowish till at top succeeded below by light gray till, equally 
