9. Mount Desert to Holden

Route from Mount Desert to Ellsworth—Slate formation—Few boulders along this route—The glacier did not generally transport the broken rocks to a considerable distance—Granite boulders in west Ellsworth—These should be preserved as memorials of an ancient revolution of the earth—Remarks —Dedham boulders white in the distance like arab tents—Farrington Hill in Holden—Denuded state of the Rider Hill which caps the former—The ancient story of the battle of the giants against the celestial deities—Milton’s description of the battle between the good and rebellious angels—Passage of the glacier down the Penobscot Valley—Morning scene—Mount Katahdin—Prospect from Farrington Hill—No Penobscot Valley glacier, as an independent ice stream—Passage of the glacier over Farrington Hill—Its decrease and disappearance, in a vision of the past.