1879. arene lt | [Wright. 
There is, also, the greatest diversity as to stratification. In some 
localities the ridges are largely of sand and gravel, and uniformly 
with an anticlinal stratification. In other places there is no stratifi- 
eation at all, large stones resting in sand, clay and gravel, in all posi- 
tions and at allheights. Frequently, for long distances, one can walk 
upon the large stones lining the top of the ridge. 
3. Kames occur at all heights above the sea. In this vicinity they 
come down to the sea level. In the Penobscot valley, above Bangor, 
Maine, the sea has covered them since their deposition. Fossilifer- 
ous marine clays (Leda clays) of the Champlain period, there flank 
their sides, and sometimes completely cover them. In that region, 
also, as elsewhere, large angular boulders, which have evidently been 
transported on ice flows, are thickly strewn over ridges of fine gravel 
covered with clay. In the Penobscot valley, as elsewhere, the bould- 
ers are most thickly strewn upon the northern slopes. 
But kames are not confined to low levels. They rise into the 
interior of Maine and New Hampshire, and are found 1,400 or more 
feet above the level of the sea. The series running south-west from 
the Rangeley Lakes is at this height, as are also those in the vicinity 
of the Fabyan House at the foot of Mt. Washington (1,570 ft.). 
Those at Colebrook, N. H., are upwards of a thousand feet above the 
sea level. [ 
4, Parallel systems of kames occur at tolerably regular intervals, 
from the Connecticut river to the Province of New Brunswick, their 
general course being from north-west to south-east, corresponding 
nearly to the direction of the striae upon the rocks, and, to a consid- 
erable extent, independent of the present water courses. I append 
a provisional list of the systems, as far as now known. 
No. I begins in No. 9, 4th range, Aroostook Co., Maine, runs S. E. 
to Houlton, thence more southerly, through Grand Schoodic Lake, 
and across the bend below, to Little Falls and the St. Croix River, 
a distance of 90 miles. A branch from New Limerick joins this at 
Amity. 
No. II begins, so far as known, in Hersey, about twenty-five miles 
west of Houlton, follows down the valley of the Mattawamkeag 
through Haynesville, Bancroft, and Danforth, to near Tomah Sta- 
tion, down the Tomah, across the Schoodic, into Baileyville, and so 
on to Meddybemps, Denneyville and beyond, nearly opposite Grand 
Menan ; about 120 miles. 
