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turning south-westerly, it follows near this river for several miles. 
After crossing Nicatowas Stream it turns more nearly south and soon 
south-easterly, and thence follows the valley of the Narraguagus 
River, ending in the great Deblois plains. Not far north of Bedding- 
ton the main kame consists almost wholly of large pebbles, from one 
to three feet in diameter—a great windrow of them. For many 
miles along the “Narraguagus the kame-stream threw off plains 
toward the west in all low places, sometimes for one or more miles, 
while toward the east, where is the river, plains are seldom found and 
then only ina narrow belt. Inother words, on the side where is the 
lowest ground we have the fewest plains. These kame-plains con- 
sist of a multitude of ridges, connected by cross-ridges. Both north 
and south of Lead,Mountain, broad lobes of these plains were sent off 
to the west at right angles to the main kame which skirts the eastern 
base of the mountain. The remarkable features of this kame are its 
length, the vastness of the deposits along its lower course, the number 
of times it leaves one valley and passes into another, its refusal to 
follow valleys which would give, judging by the land surface, better 
slopes than by the route of the kame or vice versa, its anticipatory 
choice of passes which for a time give less favorable slopes but in the 
end more favorable, also the fact everywhere observed that the kame 
is usually larger on ‘a level or up slope, while in narrow passes or near 
the height of a divide, or on down slopes, it is smaller, of coarser mate- 
rial and often disappears for short distances ; and then perhaps should 
be added, the fewness of its branches. Its windings are usually deter- 
mined by valleys or low passes ; in the level Nicatowas region the 
kame-stream had a chance to zigzag at its own sweet will free from 
the tyranny of hills, and it meanders nearly as much there as else- 
where. 
Length of system, about 130 miles. 
Villa. Mattakeunk Kames. 
Length about ten miles along the Mattakeunk Stream through Lee 
village to No. 3 Pond, where they join the main kame. Local 
gravels are reported along Gordon’s Brook and the Mattawamkeag 
below the mouth of that stream but are not yet proved to be kames. 
VIII m. Union River Kames. 
These extend from near Nicatowas Lake southwesterly down the 
west branch of Union River, ending in the Aurora plains, where this 
kame-stream has washed away system IX, showing that this series of 
gravels was deposited in the last of the kame period. This series is 
