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a 740 foot channel south of Forest Hill cemetery and Devereux 

 hill, southwest of Utica. 



The above correlations prove that the general trend of the 

 receding front of the glacier over this broad region was north 

 of east and south of west. Such oblique direction was a con- 

 dition necessary to the eastward escape of the glacial waters in 

 the Syracuse-Utica district. This has been discussed in the 

 former writing [N. Y. State Geol. 21st An. Rep't, p. 35, 36]. 



No channels occur on the slope of Eaton hill or the meridian 

 of Vernon below the 800 foot channel. The ground is largely 

 morainal, of the subdued type laid under water. Two miles 

 northwest of Vernon occurs, however, a moraine tract of sharp 

 relief. The absence of channels below 800 feet suggests that 

 the Vernon Center waters must have preserved a level not 

 much under that hight all the time that the ice was clearing 

 away from the tract of ground in the neighborhood of Vernon. 



Channels west and northwest of Clinton [see pi. 2] 

 The highest of these channels is a cutting across the back 

 of Prospect hill, 4 miles southwest of Clinton. It lies across 

 the north and south road, south of four corners [see pi. 2], 

 with altitude according to the map contours of 1280 feet. As 

 this is more than 100 feet higher than the southern outlet of 

 Stockbridge lake, it is evident that it carried only the local 

 waters held in the heads of valleys immediately west of the 

 scourway. 



The next pronounced channel is a small but sharp cut 1% 

 miles farther north, crossing the same highway at three cor- 

 ners just south of the town line, and continued east as a steep 

 bank at nearly the same level across the north face of the 

 hill. The contour hight is 1160 feet, which makes it competent 

 to carry the Stockbridge waters, even if we make no allowance 

 for northward differential uplift since the Glacial period. From 

 here northward and northeastward are several channels or 

 benches cut in the north-facing slope, as shown in plate 2. 

 One of the higher scour ways, and the one extending farthest 

 down the slope into the Oriskany valley, leads southeast to the 

 Hamilton College grounds. It forms the smooth slope behind 



