CONTENTS. 



Introduction. J. E. Woodman 



I. 



Physiography. Prof. W. M. Davis . 1-7 



Uplands of southern New England 1 



Boston harbor . . . 2 



Provincetown, Cape Cod . 3 



Coastal plain of Maine ... 4 



Connecticut valley : Meriden district 6 



GKOLOGY : NORTH SHORE. J. E. WOODMAN 9-20 



Plum island dunes . . 9 



Beach Bluff and Marblehead Neck . 9 



Nahant .... 10 



Pine hill, Medford : " 300-foot dike " 14 



Gloucester moraine . . 15 



Arlington moraine . . 15 



Mystic river quarries, Somerville . 16 



Corey hill, Brighton . . . 17 



Newtonville esker and sand-plateau . 18 



Auburndale 19 



Geology : south shore. Prof. W. O. Crosby 21-31 



The outer islands of Boston harbor 21 



Nantasket and Cohasset . 21-25 



Nantasket beach to Green hill . 21 



The Nantasket ledges west of Hull street 23 



The Cohasset shore . 24 



Northern Hingham . . . .25 



Mill cove, North Weymouth . 26 

 The Monatiquot valley, Hayward creek (Paradoxides 



quarry), and Ruggles creek 27 



Blue Hills of Milton . 28 



Quincy granite quarries 28 



Lake Bouve . . .29 



Martha's Vineyard and Gay Head 30 



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