440 J. D. Dana—Discharge of the Flooded Connecticut 
formations, and hence we are safe in attributing to it this origin. 
At this time the Archzan depressions had not yet been carved 
out, but merely a universal sea spread over the whole peninsula 
depositing the sands of Polly Drummond's Hill, while upon the 
surface of the waters, ice-rafts floated southward dropping the 
materials of Iron and Chestnut Hills, and scattering the bowl: 
ers found in various parts of New Castle County. 
dr 
the sea level stood even 1000 feet higher during the Champlain 
laware College, April 2, 1883. 
Art. XLVIL—On the Western discharge of the flooded Con- 
necticut, or that through the Farmington Valley to New Haven 
Bay; by James D. Dana. 
THE discussion with regard to the flooded Connecticut re- 
quires for its completion a revision of the facts with respect to 
the Farmington valley discharge, presented in my paper of 
1875.* It was there shown that the height of the flood from 
Northampton southward, as indicated by the terraces, was great 
enough for the waters to have passed the Hampton “divide” be- 
tween Northampton and Westfield, and the Southwick, between 
Westfield and the Farmington valley ; that they had a height 
of about 270 feet above mean tide at Simsbury (130 feet above 
low water in the river), and 223 feet at Southington (85 above 
low water); and that, from this latter place, while the rapidly 
* On the Overflows of the flooded Connecticut, TI, x, 438. 
