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Wabash River, and Salamonie River, the two streams first mentioned fol- 

 lowing it westward a few miles, then passing noi'th through the moraine, 

 while the stream last mentioned, as already noted, follows the outer border 

 of the moraine through almost its entire course. 



The following villages in Ohio are situated on this moraine: Waynes- 

 field, Uniopohs, St. Johns, Fryburg, Botkins, New Bremen, Maria Stein, 

 Chickasaw, Carthagena, St. Henry, Ferner (Oakland station), and Montere}'. 

 Fort Recovery is at its outer border. In Indiana the villages of Bryant, 

 Balbec, and Keystone are situated on it, but its course is best outlined by 

 a line following the north side of the Salamonie River. Tlie moraine is- 

 well defined and has an average breadth of about 2 miles from the borders 

 of the Scioto Basin in Ohio westward to southern Wells County, Ind., near 

 the meridian of Bluffton. From this meridian nortliwestward to the Wabash 

 River it is less well defined. It appears to be divided into two belts; the 

 main one follows the northeast side of the Salamonie, while a weaker one 

 follows the northeast side of Rock Creek. The profile of the Toledo, St. 

 Louis and Kansas City Railroad displays both these belts as ridges with 

 well-defined relief on either side, but their relief is less clearly appreciable 

 by the naked eye, since the vertical scale does not have the exaggeration 

 given it in the profile. Though the moraine is poorly defined in this por- 

 tion of its course, the ice margin appears to have had at the time the outer 

 belt was forming a position near the line of the Salamonie River, the country 

 just north of the river being somewhat more undulatory than that south, 

 though nowhere sharply morainic; while at the time the inner belt was 

 forming the position was along the northeast bluff of Rock Creek for a few 

 miles, thence northwestward along the south side of the Wabash River to 

 Huntington. 



North from the Wabash the outer belt, as above indicated, appears to 

 be closely combined Avith the Mississinawa Tnoraine. The inner belt follows 

 Clear Creek to its source, north of Avhich it is represented by a low ridge 

 thickly strewn with bowlders, whose course in Whitley County, as deter- 

 mined by Dryer, ^ lies through the eastern part of Washington and western 

 part of Union townships to southern Smith Township, where it becomes 

 closely associated with the stronger moraine outside it, a moraine which 



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