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New England elevated 10,000 or 12,000 ft above the sea—Her mountains covered with perennial snow—Scenery of the times—Flora and fauna of the age—First appearance of glaciers in the country—The peculiar phenomena connected with them—Scenery of the times—New England covered with a glacial cap—The glacier and the climate described—Aurora borealis—Separation of icebergs from the glacier – Their general appearance when first detached—A storm, and breaking up of floe ice—Boulder materials deposited by the glacier on dry land—Much of this debris washed away by floods and rivers towards the south.
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The supposition of the existence of New England alpine glaciers, must be taken with much caution. I am not disposed to doubt that they existed to a very limited extent; but snow must have covered the country generally, which would prevent alpine glaciers from flowing to any considerable distance.
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See Chap. 24, on the motion of Glaciers.
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Boulders might also work up and down along the sides of a glacier, and there be subjected to repeated scratchings. Or in passing over great inequalities of surface the rock might be displaced in its bed; or it might be caught again at the terminus of the glacier as the winter growth extended the mass. Rocks scratched at different angles upon two or more sides are common about Penobscot Bay. At the Steam Boat Wharf, Camden, I saw a few years ago many such rocks.
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Borns, H., Maasch, K. (2015). A Glacial Time. In: Foot Steps of the Ancient Great Glacier of North America. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13200-6_24
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