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the south side of the valley for a couple of miles up stream 

 from South Kortright there is a considerable moraine in which 

 several distinct marginal channels are developed. Moraines 

 and channels both indicate ice movement down the valley. 

 A little over half way between South Kortright and Hobart is 

 another prominent morainic mass. At Hobart is a complex 

 mass of moraine, apparently built up largely by ice moving 

 down the valley from the direction of Stamford. 



Along the lower course of Town Brook, which enters the 

 Delaware from the east at Hobart, is an interesting group of 

 morainic loops. Between the village and the first road turning 

 south across Town Brook is a very perfect loop, convex 

 down valley and clearly built by a glacier moving west down 

 the Town Brook valley. Two other similar though less 

 pronounced loops, both convex down valley, are found within 

 the next two miles up the brook. This arrangement of the 

 moraines is surprising, particularly in view of the south-point- 

 ing striae just north of Hobart. The loops were at first 

 thought to be the work of a local glacier in the Town 

 Brook valley, but the discovery of the striae indicating ice 

 movements south westward into the valley through the pass 

 between Utsayantha and McGregor Mt. led to the alter- 

 native and apparently more reasonable hypothesis that the 

 moraines were produced by a tongue of ice from the Schoharie 

 lobe pushing over this pass and down the valley of Town 

 Brook. 



In the valley of the Delaware River between Hobart and 

 Stamford are many morainic loops, all convex down stream. 

 Such loops are especially conspicuous about one mile above 

 Hobart. Stamford is the center of strong morainic accumu- 

 lations * formed, apparently, at the ends of ice tongues which 

 pushed from the Schoharie lobe through the gaps between 

 Utsayantha and Bald Hill and between the latter and Mine 

 Hill. The moraine is very hummocky, yet presents many 

 distinct loops convex toward the west. It extends continuously 

 from a point one mile below the village, where one of the outer 

 loops encloses a small filled lake basin, to the pass between 

 Ball Hill and Utsayantha. In the northern branch of the 

 valley, strong morainic loops, fronted on the west by an out- 

 wash plain, hold in Utsayantha Lake. From this lake to Mine 

 Hill Pond, the valley is greatly choked by moraines, some of 

 the loops of which enclose small peat bogs. These loops, like 

 the others, indicate that the ice pushed through the gap from the 

 east. 



A small tongue of ice from the Schoharie lobe pushed a 

 short distance throught the gap between Mine Hill and Potter 



* Chamberlin, T. 0., 3d Ann. Eept. U. S. Geol. Survey, pp. 367-8. 



