Geology of the Boston Basin, Vol. 1 of 2

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Excerpt from Geology of the Boston Basin, Vol. 1 of 2: Part I. Nantasket and Cohasset The numerous islands of Best-ou Harbor, as any one may ob serve in going from Boston to N antasket by water, are, with unimportant exceptions, composed, like the Nantasket Beach area, wholly or almost wholly of rounded drift hills and con necting beaches of sand and gravel, and the fine sections of some of the drumlins due to marine erosion show that in most cases they are pure drift accumulations, at least above sea level. The Boston Basin does not afford a stronger topographic contrast than is presented when the Nantasket steamer, having rounded Bumkin Island, the graceful drumlin outline of which is abruptly terminated on the west by marine erosion, and followed the winding channel past the beautiful drumlins of the World's End and Planter's Hill, sweeps by the bold and massive ledges of Rocky Neck and Nantasket. We pass in an instant from an area which is deeply covered by drift and presents only the most typical drift-contours, to an essentially driftless area, where the ice - sheet left hardly sufficient detritus to fill the narrow gorges and chasms dividing the rocky hills. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.