The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-11-28

bling potatoes in color. These ridges,
called kames by the scientists, are the
beds of rivers which flowed through
the ice in the glacial period, and are
found in many sections of the State.
On a recent visit to Bridgton men,
bers of the Maine Press Association
were taken upon one of these kames,
or horsebacks, near the office of the
Bridgton News. Professor George H.
Stone of Colorado College, Colorado
Springs, is the author of an interest
ing monograph on The Kames of
| Maine, published in 1880, and a more
elaborate report is found in the mono
graphs of the U. S. Geological Survey,
published in 1899. Several of these
kames are in Waldo county and vicin-
ity. The Penobscot Bay System as de-
scribed by Prof. Stone extends south
from Sand Bar and Hogback Islands in
Moosehead Lake, and its course from
Hermon Pond is through West Hamp-
den to Ball Hill Cove on the Penobscot,
then along the west side of the river
(past Frankfort in the river, and
through Stockton and Prospect into
Penobscot Bay, near Fort Point" The
, Winterport kane ''extends from South
Twin Lake south to Seboeis Lake,
through and under this long lake,
showing at the surface as a series of
horseback islands, thence via Medford
to Lagrange, then along the line of the
Piscataquis R. R. NOW B. & A. R. r.
to Pea Cove thence along the west
bank of the Penobscot through Orono
and Bangor, to join the main kane at
Ball Hill Cove in Winterport. Has
| been in part washed away by the Pc
nobscot.,' OF the Searsmont system
Prof. Stone says: This kane begins
near Hartland village and extends
quite continuously through Palmyra
and Pittsfeld 10 Unity. 1t is every
where bordered and in part covered by
marine sands and clay Although pass
ing through a level region it shows
many abrupt meanderings. From Unity
southwark to near Thorndike Station,
there are only few exposures of gravel
; along the valley of Sandy Stream. This
valley is deeply covered with sands and
clays, partly of marine deposition, and
probably in part deposited by the stream
itself This was near the shore line of
the Champaign sea, where tidal currents
would sweep back and forth with great
violence. Near Thorndike Station the
kane rises out of the valley and ex-
tends southwark along the side of the
hills which border the valley of Half
Moon Stream on the west. In Knox
this valley turns southwesterly, while
the kane keeps straight on south across
! it, and then ends on the northern slopes
of high range of hills. Here is gap
of about three miles where there are
only few small gravel beds, and then
a number of large ridges begin near the
north side of the valley. They cross it
obliquely, and run southwark through a
low pass which skirts the western base
of Hogback mountain in the northern
part of Montville. They thence continue
down the valley of a branch of the st.
Georges River and end in large sand
and gravel plain near the north line of
Searsmont. A few small ridges are
found below here, and perhaps this
kame-stream once flowed to the sea,
but if SO the gravels are now disguised
by Champlain clays. Length of system
about 40 miles" The Liberty system
is described as "a local system ending
at the south near True's Pond in Lib
erty. Length about miles" "There
are few short gravel ridges in Troy
and the western part of Dixmont which
may belong to the Dixmont system"
Prof. Stone, the author of this inter
esting monograph, was formerly of
kents Hill Seminary. He has made a
study of these ancient river beds, scien-
tifically known as kames, and his work
shows an intimate knowledge of the
topography OF Maine.