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along the ea^^teni side of these drift hills, which sire merged together, except- 

 ing the slight hollows hetween their successive broadly rounded crests. 



East of the central part of Mirror Lake and north of the principal buildings 

 (•f the Lake Placid Club, a drumlin about a half mile long from north to south, 

 with a width of a (quarter of a mile, rises 100 feet above the lake. Its north- 

 ern part is wooded, and the southern part is farming land. Within a third of 

 a mile thence to the south and southeast are three smaller and lower drum- 

 lins, liaving heights of about 40, 50, and 20 feet, in their order eastward 

 from the south end of Mirror Lake. The first and second, mainly wooded, are 

 close south of the road leading east from the Lake Placid Club, and the third 

 is on cultivated land at the northeast side of this road. 



The outlet of Lake Placid, flowing south two miles from its southwestern 

 arm or bay to the Chubb River, crosses a tract of glacial drift, with many 

 boulders along the stream course, which intersects this group of drumlins. 

 Ou the farms next west, and lying south of the road fromr the Stevens House 

 to Saranac Lake, are three drumlins, the most northern being named Ne-an- 

 doc Hill, about 2.010 fet^t above the sea. The others, adjoining this on the 

 southeast and southwest, are 30 to 40 feet lower. Each of the three has a 

 length of about a third of a mile, trending south-southeastward; but all before 

 described trend from north to south, excepting Signal Hill, which trends 

 southwesterly. 



Between a quarter of a mile and one mile southwest of the preceding, Chubb 

 Hill, a large drumlin at the south side of the road from Lake Placid railway 

 station to Saranac Lake, rises nearly 150 feet above this road, its w^ooded top 

 l»eing about 2,000 feet above the sea. This oval hill trends from north to 

 south, but it!^ contour and height are not well represented on the Saranac 

 (piadrangle sheet of the United States Geological Survey. 



These twelve drumlins. found within an area that measures about two and 

 a half miles from east to west and slightly more than a mile from north to 

 south, consist of till, so far as observed, upon all the surface and in sections 

 seen beside roads, on lake shores, and in digging wells. The extensive deposit 

 of glacial drift, containing frequent boulders up to 6 or 8 feet in diameter and 

 rarely larger, probably reaches to a depth of about 250 feet beneath the crests 

 <»f the drumlins. Its thickness is indicated by the maximum depth of Lake 

 Placid, which is 125 to 1.50 feet in its eastern arm, about a mile north from 

 Signal Hill. Such sounding is there found between Buck Island and the east- 

 ern sh(fre. near the only piccipitous rock cliff that borders the lake through 

 all its extent. 



R<K*k formations, (tnly thinly overspread with drift, adjoin Lake Placid and 

 f(»rm its islands and all its shore, except that the glacial drift attains great 

 thickness, as here described, at its southern end, also inclosing Mirror Lake. 

 Southward from this group of drumlins. glacial drift and modilied drift cover 

 a tract aU>ut two miles wide and extend nearly five miles southward, trav- 

 ersed by the l<»wer part of Clnibf* Kiver and from south to north by the West 

 branch of the .Vusable River. Neither drumlins nor marginal moraines are 

 obHerved on this tract, which in part the West branch has channeled and 

 terraced. 



Surrounding tlii< i.lcntiful drift Jind tlic rcnuii-kiihlc gronjt of drurnlins. the 

 rdgh HK-k ranges of the -\dirondack Moiuitains rise to altitudes from L'.OOO 

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