KAME AREAS [IN WESTERN NEW YORK 147 
Lopography, altitude and drainage.—The Rochester sheet of the 
New York topographic map includes the kame area, in twenty- 
foot contours, and to this map the writer is indebted for the alti- 
tudes. The swamp area surrounding the ponds has an altitude 
at the north end of 665 feet and at the south end of 655 feet. 
The highest peaks of the kame hills, in the eastern tract, are 
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Fig. 5. MENDON KameEs. 
View looking southwest over “ Harris” lake. Eskerine at right. 
given contours of 840 feet. These are 100 feet higher than the 
highest drumloids in the surrounding region. This altitude of 
the sand hills is a striking feature. Eight miles southeast are 
the Victor kame hills of much greater height. Higher ground 
is found in about ten miles southward on the Hamilton-Che- 
mung plateau. North of this plateau of the “Finger lakes” 
region there is in all of western New York only one area, except- 
ing the Victor hills, surpassing in height the Mendon hills; this is 
the drumloid mass of the Turk hill group, seven miles east, 
