INDEX TO 
Page. 
Elevation of land, as cause of glacial 
period, 7, 213, 324, 329, 3373 ap- 
parent, due to changes of sea-level, 18 
329-333 
» 301 
: ! © 245 
4, 178, 180, 195, 204 
206, 219, 223, 225, 227 
Elizabeth islands, 
Ellis river glaciers, . 
Embossed ledges, 
Ephraim mountain, Me., 227 
Equinoxes, precession of 6 
Erie clay, : : e : - 176 
Erosion by ice-sheet, 5, 8, 178, 285, 
308; by rivers, 15, 38, 52, 59, 7o, 
82, 124, 143, 333; by the sea, 303; 
by rivulets, producing irregular 
outlines, 41; total in state, includ- 
ing pre-glacial, 178 
Eskers (kames), 12 
Exeter river, . ‘ : 150, 164 
“« sienite boulders, . 264 
Exploration of modified drift, . 19 
Fairlee pond, . 35 
Fall mountain, : ; , > 63 
Falls, Fifteen-miles, 24-26; below 
do., 26, 39; on Sugar river, 50; 
Bellows, 53; Livermore, 72; near 
Bristol, 74; in Franklin, 77, 123; 
in Concord, 80; Amoskeag, 95, 
250; in Nashua, 99; on Contoo- 
cook river, 102, 106, 111; in An- 
trim, 119; on Androscoggin river, 
140; on Salmon Falls river, 150 
Faults in modified drift, . ‘ 39, 107 
Faunas, . " - 282, 284, 338 
Fifteen-Miles falls, . 24-26 
19, 173, 350, 352 
117, 158, 160, 162 
276, 320 
Flood-plain, present—see /ntervals; 
of Champlain period—see Plains; 
Flint, William F. 
Floated boulders, 
intermediate, ‘ : ‘ 49, 58 
Floods of the Champlain period, 3, 328 
Flumes of White Mountains, . Fe 
Flume boulder, 269; mountain, » 278 
Fluvial deposits, 243, 338 
Folded layers of clay, 35, 52 
Formation of till, . F 5 Q, 285 
Fossils, 18, 38, 83, 163, 165-167, 281, 282 
326, 337 
Fractured ledges, 2 - 178 
Franklin, Sir John . - 320 
French pond, Haverhill, . i 30 
Frost, fracturing ledges, 179; action 
on Mt. Washington, + 207 
Fuller,C. B. . F . 281 
Furrows—see Strzg; lunoid, 182 
Gaps in Connecticut kame, 46 
PART III, 379 
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Geikie, on cause of glacial period, 
5; on kames, 14,174; on glaciated 
stones, 205, 279; on ‘‘drums,” 288, 
307; on till and intercalated beds, 326 
Geodetic positions determined by U. 
S. Coast Survey, . . . - 375 
Geological map, j : 2 371 
Giant’s grave, . : 3 : @ 162 
Glacial drift, 9, 10, 176, 286, Chap- 
ter II; sections, 290; depth, 292; 
map, . 323 
Glacial periods, indications of, 4, 28, 
285; cause, 5, 314, 324; date and 
length, 6, 327; order of events, 
337. See lce-sheet. 
Glacial periods, indications of for- 
mer. : 6, 274, 283, 285 
Glacial rivers, 11-14, 44, 303; sub- 
glacial, é ‘ . 308, 318 
Glaciated stones, 9, 205, 260, 277-279, 286 
Glaciers, local, 212, 215, 236, 239, 
337; latest, 230-249; in Bethle- 
hem (Agassiz), 234; in the White 
Mountains, 239; in Vermont, 250; 
in Greenland, 5, 315; in the Alps, 
4, 7, 314; in Scandinavia and 
Scotland (ice-sheets), . 315 
Glacis terraces, 33, 35 
Glen house, 3 ‘ 209, 210 
Gravel ridges—see Kames. 
Gravitation, causing marine submer- 
gence, . . s 18, 329-333 
Gray clay, 94, 153-155, 158-161 
333-337 
Great rock, Wentworth, . 271 
Green Mountains, striz, . 203 
Green Mountain Giant, 265 
: - 5, 8, 315-324 
9, 176, 205, 235, 282 
287, 292, 308, 318 
Greenland, 
Ground-moraine, 
Gullies in modified drift, Al, 46 
Gunstock mountain, striz, 201; boul- 
ders, 272; river, . é . 130 
Hall’s stream, . . » 20, 338 
Hardpan (lower till), 9, 176, 283 
Haverhill, Mass., series of kames, 170 
Hawes, George W. . 286, —336 
Hayes, Dr. I.J., 316; John L, ee oe 
Heights along Connecticut river, 59- 
61; along Merrimack river, 102; 
at Orange and Newbury summits, 
65; in the lake district, 103, 121; 
along Contoocook river, etc., 119; 
in Dover, 156; on Long Island, 
304; relative heights of land and 
sea, . . e 7 - — 18, 329 
Highest normal terraces, 16, 61, 103 
Hills enclosed by modified drift, 38, 
49, 96; of glacial drift, 287-309; 
of modified drift, 304. 
