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AREA. MAPS 



The area described in this paper may be defined briefly as that 

 part of New York State which drains into Lake Erie; but the his- 

 tor}^ of the glacial waters involves territory far east of the present 

 Erie drainage, as the valleys of Oatka, Genesee, Hemlock and 

 Honeoye were forced to send their overflow westward into Lake 

 Warren for a time during the later stages of our histor5^ 



The principal phenomena herein described lie in a belt parallel 

 to the present Erie shore and having a direction nearly northeast 

 and southwest [see pi. i]. From the Pennsylvania state line to the 

 valley of Cattaraugus creek the belt is only 5 to lo miles wide, and 

 from the Cattaraugus eastward the phenomena are not spread over 

 a much wider belt until near the Tonawanda valley. The distance 

 covered by the belt in direct course from State Line to Indian Falls 

 is about 90 miles. 



The territory is included in the counties of Chautauqua, Cattarau- 

 gus, Erie, Wyoming and Genesee. In plates 1-6 the reader will have 

 before him the following sheets of the New York topographic map : 

 Westfield, Dunkirk, Cherry Creek, Silver Creek, Buffalo, Depew, 

 Attica, Batavia and Caledonia. 



