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is about 100 feet. The length is greater than that of any other in 
Hingham, being about a mile. Its general course is east-southeast 
and north-northwest, but it is now so closely wooded as to make 
particular examination difficult. Its southerly termination is quite 
near Gardner street. 
Proceeding but a short distance further north on Cushing street, 
another ridge is found to cross the road, but at a different angle 
from the first, its course being approximately northwest and south- 
east. It consequently intersects the other at a point distant five 
to six hundred feet from the road and there has its termination. 
In the angle between the two is a deep kettle-hole depression. 
This ridge extends northwest from the road between eleven and 
twelve hundred feet. 
Cushing street passes through another kame deposit, but this is 
rather a hillock than a ridge, as it extends but a short distance 
from the road on either side. 
The Kames near Great Hill . — In passing through New Bridge 
street towards Hobart, looking to the right may be seen, on land of 
Mr. F. W. Brewer, two high parallel ridges near the road, of about 
equal altitude and which coalesce with each other about 900 feet 
from the street, by one of them — the most northerly — abruptly 
dividing, one branch crossing to the other ridge, the first continu- 
ing beyond about 350 feet. The northerly kame crosses the street, 
and its extreme length is 1825 feet. The height of these ridges is 
from 30 to 50 feet, with quite narrow summits and having very 
sloping sides. Their composition is small stones, mostly shingle, 
gravel and sand. As seen from Great Hill, they are striking ob- 
jects to the view. A plate of these given shows in the distance at 
the left one of the beautifully rounded summits of a drumlin, that 
of Baker’s Hill. 
A peculiarity of these kames is the fact that their direction is 
from west to east, thus being nearly at right angles to all others 
which have been referred to. This direction would be entirely in- 
consistent with the view that the great ice front of the glacier con- 
tinued to present itself, as at an earlier period, along an unbroken 
line from west to east, for if so the rivers caused by the melting 
glacier would have continued to flow south or nearly so. Mr. Up- 
ham, in endeavoring to account for deflection in the direction of 
some of the lenticular hills described by him, makes remarks which 
