46 II. I.. KAIl^CJIII.I) — (;LA(iAI> WATKKS IN KJN<iKK LAKES KKCilOX 



Tonus the front of an extended plateau of water-laid drift, with low 

 ridges i)arallel and close to the stream channel. This })lateau may rep- 

 resent the highest or initial level of the AV^atkins lake. 



Across the ravine or southward are three hars, the lowest being the 

 strongest, with a difference of elevation of 10 feet. Their absolute ele- 

 vation, however, is at least 10 feet lower than the Nivison bar. 



The Warren level is shown as a plateau in the little village below and 

 west of the station, with an elevation of about 830 feet. North of the 

 northern ravine a heavy ridge of coarse material occurs in the orchard 

 and behind the barn of Mr B. J. Budd, with elevation of 871 feet. Below 

 this is a poorly formed ridge at 864 feet. 



At North Hector station, immediately north of the station, the delta 

 gravels have been extensively excavated, giving a vertical exposure of 

 about 100 feet and well displaying the delta structure. The Newberr}^ 

 level is the summit of the dissected plateau, where a heavy bar-spit is 

 found, on the north side of the road, with elevation of 984 feet, the sta- 

 tion being 872.22 feet. Behind this transverse bar is a broad basin of 

 low ground. This bar seems to correlate with the high bar at Hector, 

 two miles south, and may represent the primitive Watkins level. 



The railroad station is a few feet over the head of the Warren plateau, 

 which averages about 865 feet (aneroid). 



The village of North Hector lies a mile westward, near the lake, on a 

 series of delta terraces. The broadest of these terraces is thought to rep- 

 resent the waters of the lake Dana. 



At Lodi, one quarter of a mile east of the station, and just beyond the 

 cemeter}' and schoolhouse, are three bars, showing best upon the south 

 side of the road. Taking the top of rail at the station as 784.62 feet, the 

 elevations of these ridges are 854, 865, and 874 feet. The highest ridge 

 is the largest, and is taken as the best representative of the Warren level. 



One-half mile farther east and half way to Lodi village a strong bar 

 crosses the road, beneath the house^of Mr James Gulick. The elevation 

 is 977 feet and it represents the Newberry waters. 



At Ovid the top of rail at the station has an elevation of 857.52 feet. 

 The beach of lake W^arren is 19 feet higher, or 877 feet. This shows east 

 and northeast of the station as a good spit. South of the station the 

 beach is faint, but shows clearly farther westward wliere it curves around 

 the hillside. It crosses the east-and-west road, in the northwest part of 

 the village, beneath the house of Mr Patrick Smith, and is a good shore- 

 line farther south. The drift of the region is onl}' a thin veneer over 

 soft shales, from which it was apparently derived, and the material of 

 the beach is largely a shale gravel, which at the surface, especially in 



