J. S. Dilhr— Westfield during the Cham-plain Period. 263 



twelve feet per mile to near the Catholic cemetery, and is there 

 249 feet above mean sea-level, or 104 feet above highest modern 

 flood-level at Westfield. A plain extending south from near 

 Easthampton toward the Hampden Ponds, slopes in the same 



direction. The divide between Northampton and Westfield 

 is crossed, west of Hampden Ponds, by a valley through which 

 w»e old canal extends. The highest plain in this valley near 

 Southampton is 256 feet above mean sea-level, and slopes 



A *. Jour. Sci.-Thibd Semes, Vol. XIH, No. ?6.-Apbil, 1877. 



