G. H. Stone—Terminal Moraines in Maine. 383 
As before stated the moraines climb the hill on the east side 
of the Medomac. They rise to a height of about 100 feet 
above that stream. ‘T'he more northern moraine soon almost 
disappears, but the southern ridge is conspicuous for about one 
mile. It is a two-sided ridge, its southern slope being as steep 
as moraine stuff will lie, and for a part of the way the northern 
slope is nearly as steep. The ridge everywhere contains more 
bowlders than the ordinary till of the region. Many of these 
bowlders are from five to fifteen feet in diameter. The moraine 
rises from ten to twenty feet and is of variable width, in a few 
places being ten rods wide, usually narrower. Tor a short dis- 
tance it serves as a natural roadway through a swamp, and is 
locally known as the old railroad grading. It here rises steeply 
from eight to fifteen feet on each side, and .is so narrow that 
there is just room enough for a log road on the top. The ma- 
terial is here very coarse; in fact the ridge is simply a wall of 
bowlders. A short distance east of this swamp the moraine dis- 
appears near the eastern brow of the hill, but begins again 
about one-fourth of a mile to the southeast. The topography 
of the country accounts satisfactorily for this gap. The hill, on 
its east side, overlooks the valley of Meadow brook, a small 
stream which flows northwestward into the Medomac. Also 
there is a valley which extends nearly north from the gap in the 
moraine. 'T'wo favorable lifes for ice-flow converged at this 
point. Naturally the deeper ice of the valley reached a point 
farther south than the thinner ice which abutted against the hill 
to the west of Meadow brook, and its moraines are larger. Af- 
ter passing the gap we come upon the moraines on the eastern 
slope of this hill at a heightof about 75 feet above Meadow 
brook. There are here several nearly parallel ridges extending 
eastward, also a line of hummocks reaching northward along 
the base of the hill for a short distance. They are all well 
sprinkled with large bowlders. The moraines cross the road 
leading from Waldoboro to North Waldoboro at Benner’s mill, 
on Meadow brook, the road passing through a narrow gap in 
the ridges. Hast of this road the several ridges unite into a sin- 
gle ridge which rises steeply on each side from 380 to 60 feet. 
It is here locally known as ‘“‘ The Ridge,” and in form resem- 
bles the osars. A broad and flat deposit of glacial gravel begins 
a few rods south of the moraine and extends for about one mile 
southward along the road to Waldoboro. I could not trace the 
kame quite to the moraine, though it nearly reaches the end of 
one of the outlying ridges which are found west of the road. 
The marine clay here overlies the kame and appears to overlie 
the base of the moraine. 
A short distance east of Benner’s Mill the moraine curves 
around fram east to northeast, and within less than two miles 
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