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GLACIAL PHENOMENA IN MAINE. 
doubt tliev once stretched across it, and were 
broken through by the sea. On either side, to 
the right and left, in ascending the sound, are 
little valleys running down to the water; and 
evidently they have all had their local glaciers, 
for there are terminal moraines at the mouth 
of each one. These facts only confirmed my 
anticipations. I had seen, on passing the head 
of the fiord, in our drive of the previous day, 
that it must from its formation afford an 
admirable locality for glacial remains, unless 
they had been swept away by the sea. The 
small town of Somesville is beautifully situated 
at the head of the sound. Approaching it 
from the east, I observed that the glacial 
marks which had been pointing due north 
began to point west-northwest, while on the 
western side of the settlement they pointed 
east-northeast. Evidently there is an action 
here similar to that bv which the marks are 
deflected on the northern shore of the island 
about Frenchman’s Bay and Union Bay. The 
mass of ice coming from the north had been 
gradually sinking into the fiord from opposite 
sides. Near Somesville church the marks run 
again due north. 
