274 H. L. FAIRCHILD LAKE WARREN SHORELINES I GENEVA BEACH. 



The steep northern side of the kame-moraine, facing Tonawanda creek, 

 has not preserved the shoreline features, but passing around to the east 

 side a good bar and spit are found just south of the village. This has a 

 direction south of east, touching the four corners made by intersection 

 of the north-and-south, Indian Falls-Corfu, road by a local east-and-w est 

 road. The residence of Mr Otto Clark is at the corners. The shoreline 

 follows the road 'east from the corners a few rods, then crosses to the 

 south side of the road, and ends as a heavy, broad spit behind the Ger- 

 man church. A cemetery is located upon the point of the spit. This 

 forms the eastern extremity of the island made by the kame-moraine 

 southwest of the village. 



FROM INDIAN FALLS TO BAT A VIA. 



At Indian Falls the channel of Tonawanda creek interrupts the beach 

 for three-fourths of a mile, but it reappears in excellent form on the 

 summit of the hill at the north edge of the village. A strong ridge of 

 somewhat angular gravel lies upon the east side of the road and sup- 

 ports the house of Mr C. T. Pratt. The southern end of this bar turns 

 west, crosses the road, and then turning north runs along the west side' 

 of the road to a three corners. Here the bar swings eastward, crosses the 

 road by the house of Mr Bascom, then curving northward passes behind 

 the house of Mr Peter Lester. In a short distance the bar turns east, at 

 which point another branch runs west, the latter crossing the road and 

 terminating upon the crest of the Corniferous escarpment. The eastward 

 branch soon breaks into a series of overlapping bars and spits of good 

 development. Turning northward, in about one-half mile the beach 

 crosses an east-and-west road, by which is an old gravel pit in the ridge, 

 and soon drops over the edge of the Corniferous limestone a few rods east 

 of a north-and-south road. For a short distance the shoreline is a cliff 

 in the limestone, but quickly surmounts the escarpment as a well devel- 

 oped ridge of almost clear chert. 



It is an interesting fact that the altitude of the Corniferous escarpment 

 and the surface of the Warren waters were nearly coincident. From 

 Indian Falls around to northeast of Batavia, a distance on the shoreline 

 of perhaps 20 miles, the beach is usually on the crest of the rock ledge, 

 as a ridge of nearly clear chert. At a few points the rock was higher 

 than the water, and wave cut cliffs are conspicuous. The best cliffs are 

 south of Smithville, east of Daws Corners, and northeast of Batavia. 



From the point last mentioned in the detailed description the .beach 

 follows the irregular crest of the rock escarpment for two and one-half 

 miles, crossing several highways, as shown in the map, and terminates 

 behind a rock hill near a stone school-house at three corners. A strong, 



