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On the west side of the city the terrace rises in successive 
stages to more than eighty feet, and the surface grows more 
and more uneven, until about two miles back from the creek, 
it emerges into an enormous kame running nearly north and 
south and known as “ Buck’s Ridge.” This ridge is identical in 
its structure with the kames of New England. Where it is in- 
tersected by the Fort Wayneand Chicago R. R., the kame rises 
eighty-five feet above the plain, is coarsely stratified, contains — es 
many granitic pebbles, one of which, 21$ feet higher than the 
railroad, measured 55 X 46X18 inches. There were large spaces 
in which no stratification appeared. Pebbles upon the summit 
from two to five inches in diameter are numerous. e section 
exposed shows a base of 570 feet, with an altitude of 85 feet. 
The slope upon the east side, towards Canton, varies from 18° 
to 25°, on the west sideit is a little more gentle. An extensive 
sandy plain full of gentle swells and ridges stretches to the 
westward, while the space toward Canton is occupied by the — . 
more nearly level terrace. 150 yards north of the section just 
described begins a series of enormous dry kettle-holes, whose : fe 
rims are upon a level with the top of the kame. One measured _ 
300X200 feet, was 40 feet deep, with sides sloping inward 24°. 
A granitic bowlder in one of these measured 51 x 25 x 31 a 
inches. This series of kettle-holes stretches northward, and 
connects with a line of glacial lakes extending to Akron, 
which occupies a pass on the watershed between the valley of — 
ope ahoga and that of the Tuscarawas. 
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of Canton one mile and a half, and just below the a a 
Junction of the two branches of the Nimishillen, there aretwo 
well-marked terraces, the first of which is much the broader, oe 
