36 H. L. PAIRCHILD GLACIAL WATERS IN FINGER LAKES REGION 



cement. The divide lies <'il)()ut one-half mile west of W'ayhind. where 

 the waters of the marsh find tlieir way to either the Dansville or the 

 Cohocton valleys. 



The second outlet of the glacial Sj^ringwater lake was northwestward 

 by a notch in the west wall of the valley, about one mile soutli of Web- 

 sters station, on the Erie railroad, and two miles north of the Springwater 

 station. Here is a good swamp col, about one-fourth of a mile wide, 

 with a capacious channel leading northwest to the Conesus valle}'. The 

 elevation of the col is about 1,350 feet. The Erie railroad follows this 

 ancient waterway from Conesus station to near Springwater. During 

 this second phase of the Springwater lake its waters were tributary to 

 the Genesee lakes and they flooded the Canadice valley on the east. 

 The correlation of the water-levels with this outlet and the subsequent 

 lake history have not been studied. 



It may be noted that the physical features and lake history of this 

 valley are similar to those of the Warsaw valle}^ ; also that the two 

 phases of waters are really distinct lakes with different drainage, the 

 earlier higher lake draining south into the Cohocton ci'cek and Susque- 

 hanna system, while the second and larger lake poured its surplus water 

 westward into the Conesus valley and the Genesee lakes, although this 

 ultimately also found its way into the Susquehanna. 



Canadice Valley 



The Canadice valley lies immediately east of the Hemlock valley and 

 at a higher level. While Hemlock lake has an elevation of 89G feet, Cana- 

 dice lake is 1,092 feet. The dimensions are also much less. The head 

 of the Canadice valley is nearly on the parallel of the head of Hemlock 

 lake and about three-fourths of a mile east, and the valle}^ opens broadl}^ 

 into or blends with the Hemlock valley. The divide between the two 

 has an elevation of about 1,200 feet. As this is 150 feet lower than the 

 outlet of the Hemlock Valley glacial waters (Springwater lake), the glacial 

 Canadice must have been, in the earlier stage, simply an arm or gulf of 

 the former water. 



With sufficient retreat of the ice-front it seems likely that the Canadice 

 waters became isolated for a short time with escape across the valley 

 l)order; but the phenomena have not been studied at the time of this 

 writing. 



HONEOYE V^ALLEY 



Honeo^'e lake occupies the bottom of a narrow, long, and dee}> north- 

 and-south vallev. The head of the vallev is about three miles west of 



