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DISTRIBUTION. 



From Shelbyville the moraine bears eastward to the Indiana line, and 

 deviates but slightly from a straight course. There is a slight lobation at 

 the Embarras Valley which carries the moraine perhaps 5 miles south of a 

 direct line. There is also a slight reentrant angle south of Paris, Illinois, 

 carrying it 2 or 3 miles north of a direct line. The following villages are 

 situated near the south border of the moraine: Shelbyville, Windsor, Para- 

 dise, Trilla, Janesville, Diona, Westfield, Swango, and Nevins. The cities 

 of Mattoon, Charleston, and Paris are situated near the inner border of the 

 moraine. 



The moraine enters Indiana immediately west of the city of Terre 

 Haute and bears northward along the west side of the Wabash Valley to 

 northern Vigo County, where it crosses to the east side of the river, but con- 

 tinues northward into Parke County along the narrow uplands between the 

 Wabash River and Big Raccoon Creek as far as the mouth of the creek near 

 Montezuma. Here it turns abruptly to the east and maintains an eastward 

 course across Parke County and nearly to Bainbridge in Putnam County, 

 where it turns southward for a few miles, crossing Walnut Creek near the 

 city of Grreencastle. From Greencastle the course is eastward past Mount 

 Meridian, Little Point, and Monrovia to the vicinity of Mooresville, in north- 

 ern Morgan County. From Mooresville the course is southward through 

 eastern Morgan County, but the moraine is so feebly developed that the posi- 

 tion is difficult to outline. The Shelbyville drift sheet apparently extends 

 into southeastern Morgan and southwestern Johnson counties, its limits in 

 these counties being a few miles outside a later moraine. But in southern 

 Johnson County the later moraine extends to the extreme limits of the 

 Shelbyville sheet. A moraine thought to be the Shelbyville reappears a few 

 miles southeast of Columbus, Indiana, and has been traced from that point 

 eastward into southern Ohio. But that portion of the moraine lies outside 

 the limits of the district covered by the present report. 



From Shelbyville, Illinois, the moraine is found to take a northward 

 course, passing a few miles west of the cities of Decatur and Clinton, the 

 villages of Macon, Harristown, Warrensburg, Hallsville, and Waynesville 

 being' situated on it. From Waynesville the course is northwestward past 

 Atlanta to Delavan. The moraine here takes a northward course and 



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