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this time lie the eskers with their occasional attendant frontal 
sand-plains. The interlobate moraines of this district extend 
north and south wliere developed. The moraine skirting the 
west coast of Cape Cod Bay is the best developed of the region. 
Conformable to the law of correlation in distribntion of glacial 
deposits, the eskers of this district diverge with the striae in the 
body of tlie lobes, or what is the converse of this statement, con- 
verge toward the interlobate moraines. The eskers of the 
Coleman's Height sand-plain in Scituate, Mass., on the east side 
of the interlobate moraine, have a north-east and south-west 
course (T. W. Harris). The eskers of Hingham, on tlie west 
side of the interlobate moraine tend to run to the south and east. 
Their position is too far north to be within the normal movement 
of the ice up to the moraine, and the east and west course of one 
of the eskers is probably due to a movement of the ice after its 
front had receded from the district marked by the lobate 
moraines. 
A feebly-developed interloljate moraine skirts the west coast 
of Narragansett Bay. Along this district from North Attle- 
boro, Mass., southward to Wickford, R. I., short eskers exhibit 
a marked tendency to lie on the west side of valleys or to 
run in a south-west course, conforming in direction with the 
glacial striae. From Woonsocket, R. I., southward, on the west 
of the probable line of the intermediate moraine, eskers lie 
towards the eastern side of the valleys in which they occur. In 
the district between Narragansett Bay and the Plymouth inter- 
lobate moraine, the eskers, as in the vicinity of the ponds al)out 
Middleboro, have a southerly course toward the front. 
The interlobate moraines in the lower Connecticut valley have 
not yet been made out, but on the Meriden atlas sheet where the 
ice moved towards the west of south, the eskers run either in the 
same direction or hug the western walls of the valleys. 
Eskers used as Roads. 
In many places in southern New England eskei's have been 
made the line of public highways. In some instances this choice 
has arisen from tlie necessity of finding a natural embankment 
across the swampy ground which commonly marks the depression 
in which the ice-remnants stood. In otlier cases, tiie road has 
