of the Northern CatsMLl Mountains. 



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Schoharie is striking and not unlike that of a body of 

 water drowning a late mature mountainous landscape. To the 

 north and west, the westward continuation of this plateau pre- 

 sents an almost unbroken skyline. To the southwest one looks 

 down the valley of the West Branch of the Delaware River 

 bordered on the northwest by the plateau and on the southeast 



Fig. 3. 



Fig. 3. Looking north down Schoharie Valley from a point 3/4 mile 

 west of Prattsville. Note even skyline of 2000 foot plateau and sharp trench 

 of Schoharie Creek. From a photograph. 



Fig. 4. 





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Fig. 4. Looking southwest from base of Eeed Hill, one mile north of Gil- 

 boa village. In foreground is Schoharie Creek, in middle distance, the even- 

 topped 2000 foot plateau and on skyline the peaks of the Central Escarpment. 

 Note the pronounced bench at about 1300 feet half way between Schoharie 

 Creek and the plateau level. From a photograph. 



by the gradually diminishing southwestward arm of the Central 

 Scarp. 



The even skyline of the higher Catskills to the south is 

 striking when seen from such a point of view as Utsayantha, 

 and perhaps even more striking is its gradual and uniform 

 descent toward the southwest. This even skyline should not 

 be taken as proof of a former peneplain at this level, although 

 even this may lie below the level of some of the earliest, e.g. 



