1880.] 459 [Stone. 
far north of East Rochester. It crosses from the eastern to the west- 
ern side of the river at East Rochester, and from there the series is 
said to be nearly continuous to Dover, N. H. 
Leneth 10 or more miles. 
TOPOGRAPHICAL RELATIONS OF THE KAMES iN MAINE. 
The kames are found at all elevations above the sea up to about 
1,600 feet. At its north end System II is about 900 feet above tide 
water, and on the south it probably runs into the sea. It forms two 
series of kame-plains, one on the Tomah Stream at an elevation of 
about 350 feet, and one at Meddybemps Lake at 250 feet. Systems 
VIII and IX, north end about 700 feet; middle about 300; south end 
Deblois Plains, 200 to 300. System X, north end 1046; south end 
in Penobscot Bay. System XXIV, north end about 1,600; on the 
south it ends in the plains near Searboro and runs into the sea. Short 
systems like XIV are but little higher on the north than at the south 
end. Almost all the kame-plains of the State are at elevations of 300 
feet above the sea or less, though a few approach 600. These plains 
are only found in wide valleys or in level regions. 
Only in a few cases is there any sign of the kames being deflected 
by hills less than one hundred feet high. They freely cross low 
transverse hills, even when a little deflection would give them a 
course through a valley. Apparently the minor details of the courses 
of the kames were determined by the local features of the glacier 
itself; and these latter bore no invariable relationship to the small- 
elevations or depressions of the underlying land surface. Many times 
I have thought I saw some such relationship and then perhaps not 
five miles away would be found exactly the opposite. But there is 
one relationship of the kames to topography which is, so far as I have 
yet observed, invariable. No instance is known of a kame crossing 
any hill where, coming from the north, one would have to rise more 
than about two hundred feet in crossing it. Hence the kames never 
penetrate the high east and west ranges with which the state abounds 
except by low passes. This may not be the lowest or most direct valley 
and very often is not the line of natural drainage. In fact the courses 
of the kames are curiously arbitrary, if only the present surface fea- 
tures of the country are considered. In general their courses are not 
deflected east or west by the hills nearly so much as are the streams 
of to-day. For instance, IX crosses the Penobscot in Medway, and 
