KAME AREAS IN WESTERN NEW YORK I4I 
with the Hopper and Fort hill ranges, but are really of respect- 
able size, somewhat mound-like and billowy in contour, closely 
huddled together, and diminishing toward the northern end of 
the area. 
The surface of the entire area is knob and basin topography. 
Broad basins and deep kettles occur even to near the top of the 
Fig. 3. VICTOR KAMES. 
View from near Tobin’s Corners, looking west 15° north, “Hopper” Hills in 
background. The point of view is upon the upper erosion plane of Warren waters, 
which also shows in distance upon right. 
Hopper range. This topography has lost, however, some expres- 
sion by the leveling effect of the Warren waters. Between 850. 
and 875 feet altitude the kames are strongly terraced or truncated, 
this plane being one of the conspicuous features of the region. 
A few summits in the southeastern part of the area, and one sum- 
mit of the Fort hill range, have escaped the leveling action of 
