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descends to the bed of Putnam's creek in a typical, hummocky 

 kamelike slope. Its western base is composed largely of small, 

 rounded cobbles in matrix of gravel, and a soil sample from its top 

 showed coarse sand. To the northwest it drops abruptly to the 

 Putnam's creek valley. 



Not far to the northwest of this, the road through Crown Point 

 Center climbs a hill from a lower to a higher level. The road 

 ascends by a dugway with Putnam's creek below on the left-hand 

 and a bank of gravel and cobblestones overhanging on the right. 

 This bank is evidently of morainic origin also. It forms the south 

 end of a ridge of hills that extends northeasterly for almost a mile 

 overlooking the villages of Crown Point Center and Factoryville. 

 This whole ridge is probably of morainic origin. Originally, no 

 doubt, the Gillette moraine formed its southern end. The latter 

 has been isolated and cut off from it by the creek. 



Sawyer Hill Moraine 



The Sawyer Hill moraine occupies a critical place among the 

 localities that have been, studied in reference to the ancient water 

 levels of the Hudson and Champlain valleys. This moraine was 

 formed against the side of the great valley glacier by the marginal 

 stream that flowed between the ice and Buck mountain as it issued 

 from the Vineyard pass. Because of its location, and because of 

 certain features that it exhibits, it has afforded important data for 

 the formation of several hypotheses regarding the postglacial history 

 of this region. These are described and discussed on pages 21-24. 

 It occupies all that triangular area south of Dibble mountain and 

 east of Buck mountain that is bounded by the Vineyard road, the 

 Crown Point-Ticonderoga lake road, and a cross-road that runs 

 east and west connecting them (see United States Geological Survey 

 map, Ticonderoga quadrangle). It is composed of sand, gravel 

 and cobblestones. There seems to be a core of tectonic rock running 

 for some distance south from Dibble mountain underneath its 

 highest portion. Its top contains several ice-block or kettle-holes. 

 The southern portion of the moraine is a wide, flat-topped terrace 

 rising 200 feet above the plain with steep faces to the east and the 

 south. It is very level and shows no trace of any marginal channel 

 across it. The entire width of it formed, probably, the bed of the 

 marginal stream. On its sides at a later time have been carved 

 shore lines. 



