336 J. DeLaski on Glacial Action dbout Penobscot Bay, 
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sive denudation of the country everywhere presenting itself to 
the eye. It.is quite evident that the formations o obseot 
to twenty feet and sometimes more; and the slates of the coast 
have but one usual dip and strike. The irregular denudation of 
the granitic floor of the region of the Penobscot Bay was cer- 
tainly posterior to the Tertiary times; and icebergs, if we adopt 
the theory, ought to have left the country vastly more level, 
where the granite abounds, than it actually is, 
The hills of the coast generally rise abruptly from the valleys 
and the sea. They are scored ‘alike along their eastern and 
On the other hand, there were examples of denuded and 
faces of the rocks with great : 
beneath it with the same delicacy of action as the sides and top 
of rude and unsystematic blows upon the faces of any of - 
was removed by piece-meal—chipped away as the snore 
wood” might chip his fallen tree, or spar; and it is appa re 
iat afterwards it became scratched by some means—san 
down smoothly and evenly the face of the rock. 
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