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line passes along the west side of Bond lake and the party 

 will walk northward from the power house to Schomberg 

 Junction, noting the very steep slopes bordering this lake 

 and the rugged nature of the ground, and also the sections 

 of the drift exposed along the newly-made highway. Much 

 of the drift in the north slope of the moraine is more or 

 less sandy, suggesting glacio-nuvial deposition, but no ex- 

 tensive bodies of outwash are associated with the moraine 

 in this vicinity. The south or rear slope, in addition to 

 the smoothness described above, is more generally composed 

 of till and shows almost no evidence of glacio-nuvial action. 

 Some of the lakes and basins are no doubt due merely to 

 the irregular heaping of the drift during deposition by the 

 ice, but some, like Bond lake, appear to mark the sites of ice 

 blocks surrounded or partly buried by drift, the lake basin 

 remaining when the ice melted out. 



From the Junction one looks to the north and west across 

 a flat valley half a mile to a mile wide, and just beyond it 

 lies a splendid moraine formed by ice moving southward 

 over the lower region to the north. The flat valley is a 

 narrow till plain lying between two moraines that face 

 toward each other. It extends eastward from the Junction 

 to Willcocks' lake, which lies partly in the southern moraine, 

 but mainly in the plain. The party will walk eastward from 

 the Junction along the south side of the plain, gradually 

 ascending the front of the southern moraine and passing 

 along the south and east sides of the lake. From the lake 

 shore the valley is seen to pass on towards the northeast 

 and north. It extends in this direction for about a mile, 

 to where it appears to vanish into the air. But a glacial 

 drainage course marked by a train of sandy gravel comes 

 from the outwash area to the east and appears to connect 

 with it. Northeast of the lake the valley has the character 

 of a large drainage channel or old river bed lying between 

 the two moraines, which form its banks on either side. In 

 the early phase of this pause of the retreating ice, a large 

 river issued from the narrow space between the two ice 

 fronts and flowed out to the west. This river carried the 

 accumulated drainage from a long way to the east and 

 northeast. There are low sand and gravel beds on the 

 valley floor north and northeast of the lake that record the 

 action of the river. 



