OWASCO AND SKANEATELES VALLEYS 51 



the profile of a delta some three- fourths of a mile soutli. The measured 

 difference upon the delta is still 27 feet. 



No evidence was found at Locke or Moravia of the Newberry water, 

 but the study of the valley is too slight to form any conclusion from the 

 evidences as to the existence of lake Newberry in this valle3^ A ■priori 

 the chances seem about even, for the 1,000-foot contour line west of 

 Owasco is on quite the same parallel as the point near Canandaigua 

 where lake Newberry found its death. It, however, seems probable that 

 lake Newberry was lost in lake Warren before its waters could gain access 

 to Owasco valley. If they did reach the valley they existed there but a 

 relatively short time. 



Skaneateles Valley 



Tlie lake of this name is some 15 miles long and varies in width from 

 three-fourths of a mile to one and one-half miles. The village of the same 

 name lies around the foot of the lake. Except on the west side of the 

 northern part, the valley has steep and unbroken walls, and the upper 

 half of the valle}^ is remarkably narrow and deep. The elevation of the 

 lake is 867 feet. 



At near the middle of the lake on the west side is a low notch, slightly 

 over 900 feet, which was the outlet of the glacial waters during the later 

 ])hase of the local lake. Before this pass w^as opened the waters in the 

 higher southern end of the valley were held up to a level about 450 feet 

 higher than the present lake, and Avere forced over the divide at the head- 

 Avaters into southern drainage. 



The headwaters divide is a mile south of Scott village and about three 

 miles south of the head of the lake, on the east side of the ancient valley. 

 The col is not a swamp but is among morainic knolls. The channel is 

 not wide, and has been obstructed by detrital cones at the inouths of 

 gullies, but is evidentlv an ancient waterway. It was not required to 

 carry a large volume of glacial water. The channel leads into Factory 

 brook, which, flowing south to Homer, 6 miles, joins the Tioughnioga 

 river. 



The present elevation of the col is about 1,300 feet. No effort has 

 been made to find any shoreline phenomena of this high level, but delta 

 terraces can probabl}' be found in the region of Carpenters Falls, on Bear 

 Swamp creek. 



As there is no village in the upper valley that lies below the "ancient 

 lake-level, we are compelled to call the lake the glacial Skaneateles. 



When the diminishing ice-lobe Avas lifted from the low notch above 

 mentioned the waters were lowered 400 feet. This pass is interesting in 



VIII— Bui.i,. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 10, 1898 



