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of which are the Katahdin Iron Works.
Returning to Bangor, he pursued, with the same minute investigation, the glacial tracks and erratic material from that place to the seacoast and to Mount Desert.
The details of this journey and its results are given in one of the papers contained in the second volume of his ‘Geological Sketches.’
In conclusion, he says; ‘I suppose these facts must be far less expressive to the general observer than to one who has seen this whole set of phenomena in active operation.
To me they have been for many years so familiar in the Alpine valleys, and their aspect in those regions is so identical with the facts above described, that paradoxical as the statement may seem, the presence of the ice is now an unimportant element to me in the study of glacial phenomena; no more essential than is the flesh to the anatomist who studies the skeleton of a fossil animal.’
This journey in Maine, undertaken in the most beautiful season of the American year, when the autumn glow lined the forest roads with red and gold, was a great refreshment to Agassiz.
He had been far from well, but he returned to his winter's work invigorated and with a new sense of hope and courage.
Houghton, Mifflin and company, New York, Boston, 1885.
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