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GLACIAL PHENOMENA IN MAINE. 
within the shore islands. The aspect of the 
coast of New England must then have been 
very similar to that of Greenland in its colder 
portions. Mount Desert itself must have been 
a miniature Spitzbergen, and colossal icebergs 
floated off from Somes’s Sound into the Atlantic 
Ocean, as they do nowadays from Magdelena 
Bay. 
