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interglacial discharge for the Upper Tuscarawas drainage. These matters 

 can scarcely be decided in the present stage of investigation. It can only 

 be said that there appears to be nothing in the features of the region that 

 would have seriously interfered with the interglacial drainage of the Upper 

 Tuscarawas through the lower course of Sugar Creek. 



Above this old divide the di-ainage was formerly northward to the 

 Lake Erie Basin. One Leg Creek was the main line of headwater drainage, 

 but at Bolivar Sandy Creek entered from the southeast, and at Navarre 

 Sugar Creek entered from the southwest. The course of the old stream 

 from this point is less easy to determine, for the drift is so heavy in that 

 region that the old valleys are in places completely filled. It may have 

 left the Tuscarawas Valley and passed eastward along an abandoned valley, 

 in which Richville stands, to the vicinity of Canton, though quite as probably 

 that abandoned valley was the line of westward discharge for an eastern 

 tributary that drained the headwater portion of Nimishillen Creek. In that 

 case the old stream passed northward along the Tuscarawas Valley. That 

 valley above Navarre seems wide enough as far north as Massillon to have 

 carried the drainage of the old stream, but from Massillon to Clinton, a 

 distance of about 12 miles, it seems much too narrow for the old stream. 

 There was apparently an old divide at the bend of the present stream 3 or 4 

 miles north of Massillon, the valley being narrow and having a rock floor 

 at slight de^Jth. It seems not unlikely that the old stream had a westward 

 discharge from Massillon along a depression utilized by the Pittsburg, Fort 

 Wayne and Chicago Railroad, between Massillon and OiTville. It would 

 there connect with the old Mohican Valley, which, as indicated above (p. 164), 

 probably discharged northeastward to the old Cuyahoga. The thought 

 that this may have been the line of discharge for the old Upper Tuscarawas 

 did not occur to the writer while in the field, and too little attention was 

 given the valley to justify an ojjinion. While it is a somewhat indirect 

 course, that may not be a serious objection. So little is known concerning 

 the district east of the Tuscarawas that it is impossible either to suggest an 

 alternative line of discharge or to rule it oiit. The old line mjiy be found 

 to have continued northward from the vicinity of Massillon on the east side 

 of the present stream past Turkeyfoot Lake, which, apparently, lies in an 

 old valley, and to have come to the Tuscarawas again a short distance above 

 New Portage. It would there connect with an old valley coming in from the 



