Egcjleston — Glacial Remains near Woodstock, Conn. 403 



Aet. XXXIY. — Some Glacial Remains near- Woodstock, Con- 

 necticut ; by Julius Woostee Egg-leston. 



The glacial drift near Woodstock, Connecticut, assumes, 

 within a comparatively limited area, forms so numerous and 

 varied as to render this locality an exceptional one for study. 

 The topography here owes its characteristic features to the 

 work of the' continental glacier. Woodstock is situated on a 

 long, smooth ridge of hard gneiss and quartzite, trending nearly 

 north and south at an elevation of 619 feet above sea-level. 

 To the east, one looks across a trough-like valley somewhat 

 over three hundred feet deep and two miles broad, to another 

 ridge of equal height and like character. The crests of both 

 ridges together mark the upland level, the uplifted peneplain 

 of the physiographer. Eastward and westward are repeated 

 north and south ridges, all nearly this same height and with 

 valleys between, giving the country a somewhat linear charac- 

 ter. In the bottom of the valley east of Woodstock lies Wood- 

 stock or Senexet Pond. It is a deep body of clear, sweet 

 water fed by springs and, from the north, by the somewhat 

 doubtfully named inlet, Muddy Brook. It is about a mile and 

 a quarter in length and five-sixteenths of a mile in width at its 

 broadest part, tapering northward gradually to its inlet. South- 

 ward it maintains its breadth for some distance and then 

 rapidly narrows to a deep outlet which winds through narrow 

 bordering meadows and broadens one-half mile southward into 

 a smaller pond. The outlet of this lower pond winds a mile 

 southward to the little village of Harrisville, where it passes 

 between considerable hills, narrowing meanwhile sufficiently to 

 permit of damming for milling purposes. Low meadows 

 immediately adjoin the main lake on all sides except the south- 

 eastern. Here for a third of its length, a bold flat-topped 

 bank covered with pines rises almost abruptly somewhat over 

 forty feet above the lake. A southern extension of it, sepa- 

 rated by a tiny stream, is somewhat lower. Across the lake 

 from here, but further back from the shore, the level top of 

 another bank may be noted twenty feet above the water-level 

 and traces of still another about the same distance above it. 

 Northward, where the meadows broaden, the banks rise gradu- 

 ally to about twenty feet. It is at this level that the most 

 striking features of the region occur. These are knolls and 

 ridges ranging from ten to thirty-five feet in height abo^e the 

 general level. They are in some instances beautifully moulded 

 in rounded curves and all arranged more or less parallel with 

 the trend of the valley. They occur frequently on both sides 

 of the lake at the same general level, but are most abundant on 



