CLEVELAND MORAINE. 637 



farther north than the old divide. Immediately south of the moraine there 

 is a valley with broad bottoms, known as the Beaver Meadow, which 

 received an ontwash from the moraine and now has southward discharge 

 throug-h a narrow gap into Great Valley Creek at Ashford Junction. The 

 moraine in the valley north from Beaver Meadow carries only low hum- 

 mocks seldom more than 10 feet in height. 



The moraine is well defined on the ridge east of West Valley, but its 

 knolls, like those in the vallej^, are small and rather sharp. The knolls 

 become larger upon passing eastward to the Lime Lake outlet, but are not 

 so closely aggregated. There was a line of discharge for glacial waters 

 along a gravel plain leading from Lime Lake southward past Machias into 

 Iscliua Creek and thence to the Allegheny. At the head of this gravel 

 plain there are small basins 15 to 20 feet deep, and also the large basin 

 occupied by Lime Lake. 



About 1^ miles northeast of Lime Lake a group of sharp drift knolls 

 appears on the crest and slopes of a hill of shale. There is another shale 

 hill south of this one whose sm-face is smooth and contrasts strongly with 

 that of the moraine-crowned hill. Basins and low swells abound between 

 this group of hills and Sandusky, occupying a strip 2 or 3 miles wide, the 

 south border being about 1^ miles south of Sandusky. It is not uncommon 

 to find basins on the slopes and tops of the swells as well as among them. 



Between Sandusky and Eagle village the moraine, for 2 or 3 miles, 

 carries many small knolls 10 feet or less in height, among which are shallow 

 basins. A sharper morainic topography then sets in with knolls which have 

 slopes of 20° to 30°, among which are many basins. This shai-p morainic 

 topography occupies the reentrant angle west of Eagle and extends as 

 a spur northward 5 or 6 miles through eastern Arcade Township into 

 southeastern Java. Some of the most prominent knolls are 60 to 75 feet 

 high. A group of such knolls appears west of Eagle at an altitude of 

 over 2,000 feet. From the reentrant angle near Eagle there is a strong 

 moraine for about 3 miles eastward to an esker in southern Eagle Township. 



There seems to have been a slight outwash from the moraine south of 

 Eagle into the headwaters of Clear Creek. There is a gravell}^ plain at 

 the south border of the moraine which grades up into the moraine through 

 a series of low swells among which are shallow saucer-like dejjressious. 

 The head of the gravel plain stands about 1,940 feet above tide, as 



