Bolton Range during the 1930s, when much of Connecticut's state forest land was acquired.

Along the Rhode Island border and swinging around parallel to Connecticut's Coast is another range of ridgy terrain. The ridges of this range run north-south along the Rhode Island line to the town of North Stonington; there the ridge lines suddenly swing around and run east-west, finally ending at Joshua Rock, on the Connecticut River in Lyme. The section from North Stonington to the Connecticut River is the only major area of east-west hills or ridges in the state. Percival called it the Eastern Uplands' "most striking feature."⁶ This unusual range will be referred to here as the Mohegan Range after Mohegan Hill in Montville, a prominent ridge in the cast-west section.

Most of the Mohegan Range is fairly rugged territory, although not as high or as rough as the Bolton Range. Geologists recognize the

A stone wall that once lined a cornfield now stands in the middle of a forest in the Eastern Uplands.

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