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upon a moraine at the lake altitude. The shoreline passes through the 

 village as an irregular and undetermined line, then swings to the south 

 along the west slope of the broad but shallow Honeoye valley. 



EAST OF LIMA. 



The beach one mile west of Lima is the most easterly point of the 

 shoreline that has been positively identified. Examination has been 

 made farther east in the hilly region of West Bloomfield and East Bloom- 

 field ; also between Canandaigua and Seneca lakes, but without finding 

 any unmistakable beaches that might not belong to other waters. The 

 evidences of static water are sufficient to prove the presence of the lake, 

 and beaches may 3 7 et be discovered. In the Seneca embay ment some 

 shore phenomena are thought to have been found, but having an alti- 

 tude somewhat over 900 feet are believed to correlate with the local lake 

 having its outlet at Horseheads to the Susquehanna waters.* 



Geneva Beach. 



general description. 



This name is applied to a newly discovered shoreline of strong de- 

 velopment. It occurs in its best form upon the western slope of the 

 Seneca valley, and from Geneva pursues a nearly direct line north by 

 northwest for about 7 miles to a point 2 miles south of Phelps. The beach 

 phenomena are very strong and characteristic, being chiefly wave-cut 

 cliffs on drumlin slopes, but showing several heavy bars and spits. The 

 phenomena as a whole are quite as strong as those of the Warren beach 

 east of Indian Falls. 



From Phelps westward the shoreline is transverse to the drumloid 

 molding of the region and the beach is in consequence broken and irregu- 

 lar and often obscure. It has, however, been clearly traced westward 6 

 miles from the point south of Phelps, or to within about 2 miles southeast 

 of Shortsville. This carries the beach around into the Canandaigua em- 

 bayment and indicates that it belongs to a water body more extensive 

 than one restricted to the Seneca embayment. 



The altitude of the beach at Geneva is just 700 feet, and near Phelps 

 it seems to be 10 or 15 feet higher. It is believed by the writer that this 

 beach correlates with the terraces and plateaus of static water origin in 

 .the Irondequoit valley, which have been merely mentioned in former 

 writiiigs.f Indeed the evidences of this water-level have been seen upon 

 the Mendon kame hills and upon the drumlins as far west as the Genesee 



* Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., vol. 6, pp. 365-369, 462-466. 



t Kame Areas in western New York, etc., Jour, of Geol., vol. iv, p, 135. 



