Between Danbury and New Milford no moraine crosses either the Rocky or the Still valley, but the abundance of till which overspreads the whole country indicates a slowly retreating glacier well loaded with rock debris. The mounds of stratified drift scattered along the valley doubtless represent the deltas of streams issuing from the ice front. The waters of Rocky River were ponded until the outlet near Jerusalem was uncovered and the disappearance of ice from the ravine below allowed an escape to the Housatonic. Stratified drift is present in greatest amount along the valleys of Still River and the west fork of Rocky River, indicating that these were the two chief lines of drainage. The uplands are practically without stratified drift. Along the valley of the Housatonic, glacial material is chiefly in the form of gravel terraces; they extend from Gaylordsville to New Milford, in some places on one side only, in others on both sides of the river. Part of these gravel benches are kame terraces, as shown by their rolling tops and the ravine which separates the terrace from the hillside; others may have been made by the river cutting through the mantle of drift which was laid down in the period of land depression at the time of glacial retreat,[15] or they may be a combination of the two forms. In many places by swinging in its flood plain, the river has cut into the terraces and left steep bluffs of gravel. The valley of Womenshenuck Brook above Merwinsville contains heavy deposits of stratified drift, indicating that this broad valley which extends from Kent on the Housatonic to Merwinsville was an important channel for the water which flowed from the melting ice. [Footnote 14: Rice, W. N. and Gregory, H. E., Manual of the Geology of Connecticut: Conn. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey Bull. 6, pp. 34-35, 1906.] [Footnote 15: Hobbs, W. H., op. cit.] * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: With the following exceptions, the text presented here is that obtained through scanned images from an original copy of the manuscript. Possible Typographic Errors Corrected occuying => occupying PLATE II A. "of" repeated Emphasis Notation: _text_ - italicized =text= - bold ~text~ - small caps