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knoll lo or 15 feet above this terrace. The altitude here, as given 

 on the contour map, is 450 feet. The terrace is stony. It falls off 

 on its eastern face with a rocky basement. On it stands Savard's 

 sugar-house in a grove of pine trees. At the end of this beach, 

 in the lee of the island, was formed a little gravel beach in the 

 sheltered cove. This gravel deposit has been utilized to build high- 

 ways nearby. Farther in the cove, and in the lee of the highest 

 part of the island, is a gravel ridge extending back to the base of 

 Breed hill. It is a wave-heaped bar composed of gravel and beach 

 pebbles. On the face of Breed hill across the cove from the terrace 

 just described is a wide sloping terrace at about 450 feet (plate 4, 

 upper figure). 



(A. T.) that is about 50 yards wide, very level and flat on top, and 

 supports a grove of maple trees. At the back of it rise the bare 

 ledges of the mountain. Farther to the westward and about 35 feet 

 below its level appears to be another terrace in the woods. It is 

 about 25 yards wide and slopes to a rather abrupt face. This latter 

 terrace may be correlated with the Fort Edward outlet, possibly. 



Not far from here, on the eastern side of the Sawyer Hill 

 moraine, is a very sharply cut and distinct beach terrace cut into 

 the hillside at this level of the lake. It is nearly level, and on the 

 face it presents a steep basement slope while at the rear of it is 

 another steep slope where it is cut into the side of the moraine. 

 It is composed of earth and cobblestones, as smooth and rounded as 

 ostrich eggs, which they resemble in shape, although they vary in 

 size both larger and smaller (plate 3). 



LEVELS CORRELATED WITH THE FORT EDWARD OUTLET^ 

 (Map 3) 

 The extent to which the waters filled the embayment during this 

 stage is shown on map 3. During the phase of the lake just de- 

 scribed, its waters were discharging into the old Hudson gorge at 

 Coveville (Woodworth, 1905, pi. 11), over a sloping waterfall 

 nearly 100 feet high. As the old gorge was re-excavated northward 

 beyond this point, the Coveville scourway was abandoned, and the 

 next lower stage of the glacial lake was determined by the height 

 of the divide in the bed of the Wood Creek channel near Fort 

 Edward. On his diagram on plate 28, Woodworth has correlated 

 the deltas and beaches along line E-F with this outlet. This line 

 passes through Crown Point at about 350 feet altitude. " This 



1 Woodworth, 1905, p. 198 and pi. 28, line E-F. 



