64 Report of the State Geologist. 



The smaller hills, lyin^ south of the " Outlet " (Seneca river), 

 deserve attention, as representing an extreme degree of glacial 

 action. As a rule, they are not of drift, but of the country rock; 

 those of the Canoga region being probably an exception. A 

 number are composed of Marcellus shale, e. g., the one on which 

 the Swan farm stands, near the outlet of Seneca lake, which is 

 rather steep northward, with a thin coating of till, while southward 

 it has but a slight descent, emerging into a tract with heavier drift. 

 There are several hills of Marcellus shale to the eastward, with 

 a tendency to the ridge form, bluff northward, and merging into 

 levels southward; they are hardlycontinuous enough to be called 

 an escarpment, though occupying an alignment along the north- 

 ern limit of the formation. They project much more prominently 

 than the Corniferous limestone exposures, which lie to the 

 northward. 



Marcellus shale, capped with basal Hamilton limestone, forms 

 the elevated mass (200 feet above the lake) two miles south of 

 the Swan hill. It is steep northward, with a long fall of 100 

 feet to the south. Both of these hills form on the west broad, 

 low slopes of rock running to Seneca lake, where they are cut 

 off in cliffs. 



A large 'hill of Hamilton. shale lies southeast of the latter hill, 

 near MacDougal's. Its base is about 170 feet above the lake. 



East of these three hills the flat valley of Kendig's creek is an 

 obvious feature, bounded on the east by continuous table land, 

 chiefly rock. The table rises into several hills, peculiarly 

 grouped, on the west of Bearytown (Fayette) village, composed 

 in part of moraine (?). 



The very large and striking hill of Hamilton shale which rises 

 at the side of Cayuga lake, northeast of Hayt's Corners, belongs 

 in the present category ; there are also a few slight ridges in the 

 central table land, but nothing more of special note north of the 

 outcrop of Tully limestone. 



As before hinted, these hills, with Kendig's valley, appear to 

 form the remains of a topography which may have existed in a 

 much bolder form previous to the Ice- Age. Their distribution is 

 not inconsistent with a drainage topography. 



The forms are all so flattened and the breadth so great as to 

 make photographic representation difficult. Seen as a whole, 



