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The Glacial Lake and Island of Cincin- 

 nati. The city of Cincinnati occupies, as 

 Professor Joseph F. James remarks, one of 

 the most interesting geological positions on 

 the North American Continent. The strata 

 of its hills are almost wholly composed of 

 Lower Silurian fossils, in nearly perfect 

 preservation, packed as closely as they can 

 be stowed together. Besides this, it fur- 

 nishes most interesting marks of the con- 

 ditions which prevailed in the region in 

 glacial and pre-glacial times. After the 

 close of the glacial period, in the presence 

 of the debris left by the ice-sheet, blocking 

 up in places the beds of the former streams, 

 new channels had to be sought by the water. 

 Many streams were compelled to form en- 

 tirely new channels, but others had to carve 



