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der shown in one of the photographs is about four feet in greatest 
diameter. Lower down, near the Winslow House, there are two 
or three boulders eight or ten feet high ; but I saw none much 
larger than this on the north side of the mountain. On the west 
side of the southwest spur, near its end, there are, however, some 
boulders which I should judge to be fifteen or twenty feet in diam¬ 
eter, but I saw them through the woods and from a little distance. 
They appeared angular, and they may not have travelled more 
than a few hundred feet. On the east side of a bluff' of porphy- 
ritic gneiss bordering the Black water River, near West Andover 
the ground is thickly strewn for about a quarter of a mile down 
the valley with boulders of nearly every size and shape. These, 
I think, were broken off' the bluff by floating ice after the reces¬ 
sion of the glacier from the valley. 
Of drift other than boulders I have but few notes. There are 
two lenticular hills or drumlins mapped by the State Survey, 
which I have marked on the enlarged map. These hills do not 
appear to be common in this region, though they form a marked 
feature in the landscape in the southeastern part of the State. On 
Kearsarge itself there are some rather curious looking hills of 
drift in the u sag,” south of the Winslow House at an elevation 
above sea of about 1,600 feet, but I did not have a chance to ex¬ 
amine them closely. No accumulations of gravel were seen on 
the northwest side of the mountain above the i,8oo-foot contour. 
The Blackwater Valley west of Kearsarge is bottomed with 
stratified drift. 
Altogether Kearsarge presents probably as many interesting evi¬ 
dences of glaciation as any spot in New Hampshire, and is worthy 
of a much more thorough study than it has yet received. 
THE COLORATION OF FISHES. 
By RICHARD BLISS, Jr * 
NOTES ON OUR LOCAL BIRDS. 
By AMON PARMENTER.* 
^Titles of addresses before the Society September 4th and October 2d, 1884. (No abstracts 
furnished for publication by the authors.) 
