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near Pisgah. From Pisgah it passes down into Turtle Ci^eek Valley jnst 

 abo\^e its junction witli the Little Miami Valley near Kings Mills. It then 

 crosses a high tract sonth of Lebanon and comes to the Little Miami Valley 

 below Waynesville. Near this village it c<innects with the outer or Cuba 

 moraine of the Scioto lobe. 



From the junction of the Hartwell with the Cuba moraine there extends 

 northward along the borders of the Little Miami Valley, across Greene 

 County, a system of morainic ridges which may constitute an interlobate belt 

 of the same age as the moraine. Farther noi-th, iii Champaign and Clark 

 counties (see PI. II), there are drift ridges which are perhaps of more recent 

 date than this moraine, yet older than the outer moraine of the late Wis- 

 consin series. They accordingly seem referable to the early Wisconsin 

 drift, and are discussed in connection with the Hartwell nioraine. They 

 lie mainly east of Mad River, and occupy a belt extending from that river 

 eastward several miles. At the north, near the border of Champaign and 

 Logan counties, they are overridden by a moraine of late Wisconsin age. 



The moraine curves abruptly northwestward from Hartwell, and follows 

 the southwest border of the Mill Creek lowland tract to the Great Miami 

 River below Hamilton, there being a series of low knolls and ridges of drift 

 along this route, while the uplands to the south have a plane-su^-faced drift, 

 probably Illinoian, and a coating of loess-like silt. 



In the Great Miami Valley fresh-looking drift and sharply morainic 

 features appear near New Baltimore (Sater post-office), and a belt of 

 morainic type leads westward from there to New Haven (Preston post-office). 

 There are feeble morainic features between New Haven and Philanthropy, 

 but the prominent hills and large valleys of preglacial age are so much 

 larger that the morainic swells are rendered inconspicuous by the contrast. 

 The drift in eastern Hamilton and southwestern Butler counties failed to 

 fill the valleys or even to modify greatly the preglacial drainage, though 

 there is much more drift and the knolls are sharper in the valleys than on the 

 uplands. The moraine enters Indiana near Philanthropy (Scipio post-office), 

 having conspicuous features just south of the village. Its course in Franklin 

 County, Ind., is northwestward through Mount Carmel to East Whitewater 

 River, which it crosses north of Brookville just above its mouth. The 

 moraine here swings toward the north, following the west side of the river 

 into Fayette County and widening near the latitude of Connersville to cover 



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