New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-12

q Etats Of nature that hundreds OF wild deer IN
habit its more remote portions
Long Island. Is you know. lies about twenty
tn4les OF the New-England coast separated by that
snlsnd sea- Long Island Sound II is approx innate
~ nfteen miles wide and one hundred and twenty
miles long. containing 1.000o00 acres and VET with
only 1sS2 square miles Of territory it has $50 miles
OF water 'front.' counting the Sound. its bays and
the ocean 1t Is the only considerable portion OF
the Atlantic coast entirely surrounded by water.
ana receives all its attendant influence diminish
ans the oiHerencs between the temperature OF
wanter and summer. and day and night
Long Island is OF glacial formation The greater
pzrI consists OF sand and gravel and occasionally
q layer Of clay. overaid with drift growing thin
heT toward the south shore. The drift proper is
heterogeneous mixture Of sand. gravel, clay and,
AT the western end powders Under this is deposit
OF coarse yellow gravel and sand. brought 70 its
present place by glacial action but existing in a
stratied condition before the arrival OF the glacier
Inis yellow gravel and sand drift In a compare
lively unaltered state forms the soil Of the pins.
oarrens OF the region south Of the central hills
Merr1A) At the western end OF the island the
glacial drift proper attains its maximum depth
ana oiminishes toward the eastern end its averare
depth for fifty miles being not more than three or
four feet
The strata underlying the drift contain. al the
western end OF the island many rocks tilted at 81
angle and Identical with the forr,a,:o, 80 ~.
haitian Island A large amount OF sand and gravel
increasing IN amount toward The eastern end and
AZ PAGES strata OF clay found The CLAW OYER
lies wh4te iaminated sands and Under these again
are layers OF clay AID layers OF SAND. the sand
largely preaomHating. Wells bored al different
paris OF the island Snow that under the sandy
ioain' varying in depth from an inch or two 10
three feet the soil IS made up OF strstined LAYERS
o. SAND and gravel with average OF not mora
tiiail three Ie=t Of clay per hundred reet NV own
specimens from several places show no clsv Ia a
oepth OF one hundred feet; in other places only,
tnIee ieet OF clay were found 10 a deptl Of NO
Huhoieo ieet N one wen near my home y,tri6ed
cay TO depth Of six Ieet was found 6frv fae+
uhoer the surface. but except thin layers Of cay
a varying oeptAs-dpe probably To glacial roainl,
Only IaInlnated sand and gravel are found 10 a
aepth as deep as the deepest wells have been made
me cay strata under the surface of the island
op toward the south. falling about 10 per cent az
sHo"H 'y me ground water level but thrown into
numerous folds. pitched at varying angles
Inc suatihed sands and gravel which .,,,srlie
tle supposed cretaceous and tertiary beds contain
l9ssns which determine their age beyond ouestio-
tnef hish elevation must be due 10 their Ia ,,iya
Seeh faassd 10 their present position nv ,1ractse
seaon, me pressure OF the ice sheet threw mt
OF tolos the stratihed sand gravel nd ola
sc Lnen pusnlng onward, rode over them carrvinf
.iilet,se mass OF sand, gravel and debris from
~sw-Lngland and NeW-York ~ A''ii