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THE PHYSIOGRAPHY OF CECIL COUNTY 



in the former period. Although the land did not remain indefinitely 

 in this position, still time enough elapsed to permit the waves to again 

 cut well-pronounced sea-cliffs along most of the shore-line. 



Again the sea and the land changed their relative position and 

 Cecil county emerged from beneath the ocean. The rivers once 



Fig. 2. — Showing position of Wicomico shore-line. 



more began to return to the sea the material which had been so lately 

 deposited by it, and a large quantity of the sediments of the Wicomico 

 Sea were stripped from the surface of the county and carried out to 

 deep water. 



THE TALBOT STAGE. 



Once more the sea advanced, but this time to a very much less 

 extent than it had in the two previous stages. As the land gradu- 



