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and northeast of Albany have a south-southwest direction a higher _ 
ice-summit existed to the north-northeast toward or within the 
area of Vermont. It seems probable that all the phenomena can 
be accounted for, by the view, diverging a little from Professor 
Chamberlin’s, that New England with nearly all New York was 
under one broad lobe of the glacier having its greatest height 
along or in the vicinity of the Taconic, Green and Adirondack 
Mountains, and other lands in that direction farther north; that 
from this axial portion the movements were eastward, southeast- 
ward and southwestward—the Catskills, overtopping, as Smock | 
has shown to be probable, the surface of the southwestwardly- 
moving ice. This conclusion appears to flow from Professor Cham- 
berlin’s map, plate xxx, and it accords, as far as New England 
goes, with the writer’s published views. The query remains, as _ 
to how far the morainie loops of the eastern half of New York 
may be accounted for on the view of one glacial epoch, and one 
glacier subdivided at bottom by the valley depressions of the 
underlying land. : 
Prot. Chamberlin, in speaking of the Long Jsland moraine de- 
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be parallel morainic lines of one and the same epoch. e writer 
here adds that he has satisfied himself that. the double line of 
elevation in Long Island was a configuration of the surface that 
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of large size; but over the lower lands, that at the head of 
Peconic Bay which separates the higher lands into a northern and 
d those 
southern range, and t 
sent (the cases of slips down the bluft fronts excepted). com 
plete an absertte occurring in the midst of the deposits of a terml 
nal moraine is a striking fact. The writer has found no way t0 
