REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR AND STATE GEOLOGIST 1901 l47 



the great " railroad " channel 3 miles southeast of Syra- 

 cuse. (3) The later life of the " railroad " channel quite cer- 

 tainly added its waters to the flood which cut the bluffs at 



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Manlius Center and those south and east of Kirkville. The 

 waters which occupied the huge channels at Syracuse may possi- 

 bly have cut the banks on the two hills east and southeast of 

 East Syracuse, and at the last probably poured directly into 

 the early Lake Iroquois. 



The Verona-Greenway channels were probably cut at the same 

 time as these at Oneida and Canastota. These carried for a 

 long time the glacially impounded waters held in the valleys of 

 Oneida, Cowaselon, Ohittenango and possibly Limestone creeks. 

 It is not certain whether the low channels between Oneida and 

 Ohittenango carried any waters derived from the west of Lime- 

 stone and Butternut creeks. It is probable however that the low 

 channels west of Ohittenango carried in addition to the local 

 waters the eastward drainage of the vast Lake Warren, which 

 then occupied as much of the basins of Ontario, Erie and Huron 

 as the ice sheet had then deserted. 



Work in completion of channel investigation 



The channel phenomena in the extreme limits of the territory^ 

 east and west, remain unstudied. In the area between Rome,. 

 Utica and Clinton must lie the easternmost scourways of the 

 entire series. These must have carried to their destination in 

 the Mohawk the waters which cut the channels on Eaton hill, 

 and at least the higher ones on West Stockbridge, Cranson 

 and Eagle hills. 1 



West of Syracuse and reaching past Rochester to the west side 

 of the Genesee valley are capacious channels which are probably 

 later in time than those already described. It is the intention 

 of the writer to make these two sets of undescribed channels 

 the subject of another paper. Thereafter it will be in order to 

 make a summation of all the data in a single writing. 



1 8ee former report, p. 123, 124. Since the above was written the author 

 has examined the Clinton-Utica district and has mapped high-level chan- 

 nels cutting the north slopes of the ridges west and east of Clinton and 

 southwest and southeast of Utica; thus extending the series of high chan- 

 nels eastward into the Mohawk valley. These are roughly indicated on 

 plate 7. 



