546 GLACIAL FORMATIONS OF ERIE AND OHIO BASINS. 



From the interlobate moraine just referred to, the combined Wabash 

 and Fort Wayne moraine takes a westward course along- the continental 

 divide, constituting that divide from near Akron to the head of Huron 

 River, about 15 miles northwest of Mansfield. For a few miles between 

 the villages of Creston and Savamiah the two moraines are distinct, but with 

 tliis exception they are combined into a single belt as far west as the point 

 named. Fai'ther west the two belts are more widely separated, and only 

 the Wabash will now be traced. 



The Wabash moraine follows the north side of the westward-flowing 

 headwater portion of the Sandusky River to the village of Wyandot, where 

 the river turns northwestward through the moraine. The course of the 

 moraine is there -southward for a few miles along the west side of Little 

 Scioto to Scioto River at the bend of that stream west of Marion. The 

 moraine then follows the north side of the headwater portion of the Scioto 

 to the Scioto Marsh a few miles west of Kenton, Ohio. From this marsh 

 its course is south of west along the north side of the Auglaize River to 

 Wapakoneta. The river here turns northward, passing throiigh the moraine, 

 while the latter continues westward to the town of St. Marys, and thence 

 along the north side of the Grand Reservoir and Big Beaver Creek to the 

 bend of the Wabash River, near the State line, wliere it assumes a similar 

 position with reference to that stream. For 30 miles or more in eastern 

 Indiana it trends north of west, and lies immediately north of the Wabash, 

 but near Bluffton the river takes a nearly westward course and leaves the 

 moraine. The latter continues in a course north of west past Zanesville 

 to the old lake outlet at Aboit, in western Allen County. This outlet 

 crosses at the most westei'ly point of the morainic loop. North of the out- 

 let the inoraine takes a northeasterly course, its inner border following the 

 lake outlet nearly to Fort Wayne and the St. Joseph River north of that 

 city, while the outer follows the east side of Aboit River and the Hunter- 

 town marshes to northern Allen County. It there crosses Big Cedar 

 Creek, and follows its east side to the vicinity of Auburn. The moraine 

 here swings eastward, and enters Ohio southeast of Butler, Ind. In north- 

 western Ohio it follows the west side of the St. Joseph River to the Michigan 

 line. Its exact course and its connections in Michigan are not determined. 



Like the Mississinawa and Salamonie moraines, this belt governs to a 

 considerable degree the course of the streams that drain it. By reference 



