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GLACIAL PHENOMENA IN MAINE. 
ing upon an extensive ground moraine con¬ 
taining many smaller rounded and striated 
boulders. Ten miles west of Ellsworth there 
is still another longitudinal moraine; but the 
largest of all these parallel moraines is about 
three miles farther west, that is, about thirteen 
miles west of Ellsworth. Half a mile south 
of Bucksport the clay slates are nearly verti¬ 
cal, and their upturned edges are evenly pol¬ 
ished and scratched. These surfaces are par¬ 
tially covered with the mud of the Penobscot 
River. Similar facts may be traced all the 
way between Bucksport and Bangor. Every¬ 
where the scratches point due north. 
The coast range east and west of Somes’s 
Sound is divided into a series of hills by trans¬ 
verse valleys, in most of which there are small 
lakes formed by transverse moraines at their 
southern extremity. Beginning east, and not 
counting the less prominent peaks, we have, 
first, Newport Mountain; next, Kebo and 
Green Mountains; then, Jordan Mountain, 
Bobbey Mountain, Hadlock or Pond Mountain, 
and Westcot Mountain, all to the east of Somes’s 
Sound; then follow Dog Mountain, Defile 
Mountain, Beach Hill, and West Mountain, all 
