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several of these mounds in our immediate 
vicinity. The Waverley Oaks, so well known 
to all lovers of fine trees in our community, 
stand on an ancient moraine, and there are 
others in the neighborhood of the Blue Hills. 
In the southeastern parts of Maine, also, I 
have observed very well defined moraines. In 
Vermont, the valley of the Winooski River 
retains ample traces of the local glacier by 
which it was formerly filled; and, indeed, 
throughout the Alleghany range, in its north¬ 
eastern as well as its southern extension, we 
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have various evidences of localized glaciers, 
which must have outlived the general ice- 
period for a longer or a shorter time. 
I am unwilling to weary my readers by 
dwelling upon appearances identical with those 
already described; but I may state, for the 
guidance of those who wish to investigate 
these traces for themselves, that any recently 
uncovered ledge of rock in our neighborhood, 
the surface of which has not been altered 
by atmospheric agencies, presents the glacier- 
worn surfaces with the characteristic strias and 
furrows. These marks may be traced every¬ 
where, even to the sea-shore, not only down to 
