BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 
VOL. 9, PP. 173-182, PLS. 12-14 FEBRUARY 17, 1898 
“TOPOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF JAMESVILLE LAKE, 
NEW YORK 
BY EDMUND CHASE QUEREAU 
(Read before the Society December 29, 1897) 
CONTENTS 
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Generalpeapumestorethenvecion ie J. 5. 4)<7 sc vssiee we onieie se schedeieielt els cisions sls-lece 175 
INEMSTORS® VWAUIEWE ow ced anos Soe ee RER IE Ret a icc Cab ac ons oleracea aie ee 176 
IROCK GORRSs ago naSe ae eeeeee Ba yAstl «| nitaarsaheneiehee se eRe neecaiee eval, ct mverasaieldiarslansieienaaes 177 
Jamesville gorge.........-..--.-. Baton. «| 5 Ra eR pe ess ecru sn: SOR. 178 
General description... . . US Se RAE ane etc 3d Boor Nab One R rete . 178 
Fissures and caves about Jamesville lake... ........................... 178 
IK@UIS=OMIN, CEORESSICINS clas cen ee Beene eo. o0g cic no Sane Oeee oe a aaa a 179 
Channels ......... co's bikie DOeAe CA Eeee AIRES 22 Gites Orn Bis Ge aM OR etme eas 180 
WNEYRACES PAIS EE SARL Pataeee ant esi isi) rate EMRE eee Tels eras Inieleoenacsvelh ts 180 
SMiMiMaAry LNG. CONCMENO ME ooo esd epomebone oadss oocaun agsedbe mons euDeee. 181 
INTRODUCTION 
While among the lakes of central New York the narrow radiating lakes, 
known as the “ Finger lakes,” have received considerable attention at the 
hands of geographers and geologists, there are other classes of lakes in this 
region which have not as yet been made to any great extent the subject 
of serious study. 
It is the purpose of this paper to call attention to one of a class of lakes 
which are conspicuously different in nearly all their topographic features 
from the “ Finger ” type of lakes, and which, by way of distinction from 
them, might be called “ Round lakes,” or, if they had not already a spe- 
cial meaning attached to them, the terms “ Kettle” or “ Pothole” lake 
would convey some idea of their most prominent characteristic. These 
lakes are usually round or broadly elliptical and occupy correspondingly 
shaped, isolated depressions in the surface topography. They are usually 
situated along the line of the minor valleys and occupy the less dissected 
portions of the plateau, between the main north-and-south valleys of this 
XXVI—Bumn. Gror. Soc. Am., Vor. 9, 1897 (173) 
