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GLACIAL PHENOMENA IN MAINE. 
views from the high lands over all this region 
are very beautiful. O’Lammon, the Peaked 
Mountains, and the Union River Mountains 
limit the horizon in the east; Dix’s Mountain 
rises in the distance on the west; while the 
Katahdin Mountains are still visible far to the 
north. 
On returning to Bangor, I proceeded at once, 
according to my original intention, to Mount 
Desert; but before giving an account of the 
glacial phenomena on that island, I must 
say a few words of the physical features of 
the country between Bangor and the sea. 
This region is intersected by three distinct 
ranges of hills, without counting the low range 
between Brewer and Holden. The first di¬ 
vides the valley of the Penobscot from that 
of Union River, passing through the townships 
of Clifton, Holden, and Dedham; the second 
separates the valley of the Union River from the 
Coast Range; the third is the Coast Range 
itself, of which Mount Desert and the elevated 
islands on either side of it form a part; for 
all these islands, so broken and picturesque 
in their outlines, must be looked upon as the 
higher summits of a partly submerged mourn 
