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ordinary fine alluvium of any terrace occurs adjoining a kam 
“it overlies or in part covers the kam than ape 3 the ordhart 
terraces oa of later formation than the kame 
layers, always showing an inclined, and in most cases a distinctly 
anticlinal or arched stratification. The gravel, which always 
forms the eriueod part of the ridge, varies in coarseness from 
layers with pebbles only 1 or 2 inches in diameter to portions 
where the largest measure 14 or 2 feet. The fine kinds prevail.” 
aid le sand is usually coarse and sharp, well suited for ma- 
sons’ use ; it occurs in layers of varying thickness up to one or 
two feet, but sometimes it is who ly wanting.” ‘ All the mate- 
rials of this kame, and of its remnants along this valley, are 
plainly water- “worn and stratified.” 
Page 44. “The most important feature of this kame, if we 
compare it with others in New Hampshire, is that along its en- 
tire extent it constitutes a single continuous ridge which runs 
y a very direct course pees in the middle of the valley, hav- 
ing no outlying spurs, branches, parallel plage or scattered 
hillocks of the same Hae associated with it 
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e 45. “In calling cs kame continuous from Lyme to 
Windsor it is not meant to mply that it is now entire, since 
it has been frequently cut through ip considerable portions 
swept away by the main river and its tributary streams; 
but that so much of it remains as to make it certain that it 
oviginally formed an unbroken ridge.” The former southward 
continuation of the kame below Windsor is stated to be 
Upham ese mentions, on p. 47, facts from the vicinity of 
indsor, showing at one place i in the irene “ oravel which is 
unmistakably ¢ that of a kame”; just south, what “seems to be 
and 14 miles plete “ disiinod remains’of the 
forming the east border of the terrace, both kame and 
terrace being 150 to 170 feet above the river. For the next 11 
es no indication of the kame are seen; and beyond are only 
remains at long intervals more or less distinct. 
