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solid rock. From the northern end it rises and becomes broader 

 toward the south where it ends abruptly in a very steep face, drop- 

 ping suddenly to the creek far below. It is highest at the extreme 

 south end where it takes the form of a crescentic ridge with concave 

 face to the west, superimposed on a less perfect crescent. The 

 altitude here is given as 660 feet on the United States Geological 

 Survey map. The hill presents a steep, sharp-sided lobate face to 

 the northeast, east and south. Its surface is marked with kamelike 

 depressions and hummocks, and supports a scant growth of grass 

 and polytricum moss, with pine trees at the south end. It is too 

 stony to permit the entry of a soil auger. 



To the south, across Putnam's creek gorge, is another morainic 

 deposit. A very level-topped terrace extends southward from the 

 highway called locally the " Middle road." Its top is outlined by 

 the 600 foot contour line and its outer edge is lobate. Below this 

 level top the surface takes on the rounded, hummocky appearance 

 characteristic of unmodified morainic topography. This terrace 

 has at its back two ridges, the more northerly of which is a tectonic 

 ledge of gneiss. The other is a moraine into the face of which the 

 terrace has been cut. Both the moraine and terrace are ended 

 abruptly to the south by the Amy Hill brook. Overlooking the 

 brook, and about 15 feet lower than the terrace top, is another 

 terrace. It is about 50 yards wide with a fiat stony surface, and 

 runs northeast by southwest. It was formed, probably, by the brook 

 as it cut its way down. 



Buck Mountain Moraine 



On the eastern base of Buck mountain is another moraine. It 

 is west of the road running west from Crown Point Center to Ticon- 

 deroga, and opposite the place where this road is joined by the 

 road coming westward from Sugar hill (see map 5). Just west of 

 the road is a field of fine sandy loam sloping up to the base of Buck 

 mountain. It contains pebbles and small stones of smoothly rounded 

 shapes. At the edge of the woods (500-520 feet altitude according 

 to the United States Geological Survey map) the ascent becomes 

 steep, very rough with huge rough boulders, and appears like a 

 wave-swept shore line. One ascends 40 or 50 feet up this steep, 

 rocky slope onto a stony, sloping terrace about 50 to 75 feet wide. 

 This in turn is terminated at 664 feet (A. T.) against the ledges 

 of the mountain itself. 



Following this terrace northward, it is seen to become level-topped 



