J.D. Dand— Kames” of the Connecticut River Valley. 459 
T ascended this prominent “kame” with my interest greatly 
augmented by the description in the Report. The narrow plain 
between it and the station (see the section) was covered with 
pebbles from an underlying gravelly layer. The same gravelly 
layer made apparently the base of the « kame,” for some loose 
cobble-stones were found at the baseof the slopes and for 10 to 
15 feet above. But on ascendiyg the ridge, no gravel was any- 
where observed at a higher level ; on the contrary, all was fine 
loam or fine sandy loam to the very top. nd on Srvamt eocraa: | 
gravelly layers, loose stones or pebbles would have worked out 
to the surface and shown themselves somewhere over the earthy 
sides. 
A few rods west and northwest of the Hartland depot there 
description of ‘“kames,” there was, as far as Saye goes, a 
“kame.” On the first terrace-plain, about 65 feet (by my level- 
ing) above the railroad track (or 486 to 490 above the sea ot 
pha stones (1 to 10 inches across) lay over the surface, and 
called “kame ;” and, secondly and ace eee pie: at the “ nite! 
is nothing but a piece of the terrace-formation. Lull’s Brook 
ere comes in a the west and is no doubt accountable for 
the coarse gra 
North Hartland, nearly 4 miles north of Hartland.—At North 
Hartland station, ‘there commences, according to Upham’s map, 
another “kame” a mile long; it is near the river, close by the 
west side of the railroad. Its height by the map is that of the 
upper terrace-plain, or 550 to 560 feet above mean-tide level. 
race formation or “ kame” facing the cage er wg: cobble- 
stone layers 70 to 80 feet above the tra e coarseness 
“a ae to the Ocnieeevet which was in rapid flow off its 
mouth, accounted for the distribution of the _— coarse 
accumulations along the riverward border of the terrace 
