These moraines of the Little Heart Basin ap
ginal accumulations of drift about an ice lobe
the basin for a considerable period after the cod
had retreated some distance from its extreme
in this region. The limit was 40 or 50 miles f
indicated by the presence of numerous glacial b(
little or no till or boulder clay is now found wei
Heart area. The ice was several hundred t'e
the drainage basin of the Little Heart than over t
upland, and therefore probably occupied this d
long after it had disappeared from the highlau
glacier began its final retreat from this basin the
waters flowing from the melting ice formed the ^
the South and Southeast branches, and also th
flats of the Little Heart.
