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gest that they belong rather to the esker class. The post-road 

 at McGee's Corners runs north over a low ridge of this sort, just 

 wide enough at top for a road, and very gradually increasing in 

 height to about 30 feet, when it descends suddenly. South from 

 the Corners it runs another mile. This ridge appeared to be of 

 till, however. 



Fig. 8 shows the north end of a ridge, rising directly from 

 a clay plain, and displaying correctly the steep angle which the 

 sides often take. Fig. 9 is not over 15 or 20 feet above the plain. 

 Fig. 10 gives "Whisky Hill" (a title now inapplicable), with 

 ruined tavern and well kept schoolhouse. The ridge is hard to 

 distinguish from the rest of the landscape, but forms a wall 

 across the picture ; a slope at the left (north) and right may be 

 noticed. 



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Figure 11.— Drumlln or ridge seen from Kame, in north-west corner of Junius. Left hand, north; 

 line of sight, north-east. 



The absence of drumlins south of the southern boundary of 

 Junius and Tyre requires an explanation, which I have not to 

 offer. Westward, across Seneca lake, they push into and far to 

 the south of Geneva. Eastward, they run along Cayuga lake in 

 Seneca county, until opposite Cayuga village, where again there 

 are many east of the lake, on the road to Auburn The theory 

 that the drumlin belt is the remains of a moraine does not seem 

 to coincide with this geographical distribution, for a moraine 

 ought to have pushed farther south, along this meridian of low 

 levels, by probably 20 miles, and should have left plain residua 

 in Yarick and Komulus. 



The southernmost drumlins in the county are these ; One of 

 large size two miles I>r. E. of Seneca Falls village, north of the 

 canal bridge, and another of less height, south of the bridge, 

 three fifths of a mile long and 30 feet or less in height, over 

 which the road to Bridgeport runs. 



The prolonged valley of Cayuga lake runs as marsh land 

 northward between walls of drumlins on either side. 



