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turned eastward into the valley running east from Long Lake 

 village, or else westward and out through Raquette lake valley 

 and the Moose river. The former is the more likely, though the 

 drainage must originally have been westward, and this eastward 

 course represents a later reversal of direction, since it crosses the 

 main axis. 



The stream flowing north from Raquette falls was a tributary 

 to the main drainage line running westward from Axton, in the 

 present Raquette valley, with the Ampersand creek valley as its 

 eastward extension. Not unlikely there was a corresponding 

 tributary from the north, occupying the present valley of Upper 

 Saranac lake, though it is not yet certain whether that stream 

 drained to the south into the Raquette or to the north into the 

 St Regis. The general drainage arrangement in this district is 

 of the trellis pattern, it being a northern extension of the south- 

 eastern area, where that type prevails, though it seems more 

 disturbed by glacial action than that. 



Lakes 



Lakes are of frequent occurrence throughout the Adirondack 

 region. They most abound in what has been called the lake 

 belt, but they are found in great number throughout the central 

 and western portions of the region. East of the main axis, they 

 occur in much smaller number, though by no means infrequent. 

 There are literally hundreds of them. They range in size from 

 fairly large bodies of water, several miles long and a mile or two 

 in width, down to the most insignificant of ponds. The larger 

 ones are usually long and narrow and occupy the full width of 

 the valley in which they lie. These are mostly confined to the 

 central and eastern portions of the district, those portions whose 

 main valleys have received a north to northeast alinement from 

 the faults, and the lakes occupy portions of the main valleys, 

 their trend coinciding with that of the valley direction. Upper 

 and Lower Saranac, Big and Little Tupper, Indian, Schroon and 

 Long lakes are the more prominent members of this group. 

 Placid, Cranberry and Raquette lakes are of a somewhat different 



