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made by water which had little fall to reach its receiving body 

 or base level. 



♦ Careful examination of the area between Clinton and the 

 Sauquoit may find other evidences of eastward stream flow. 1 



Channels south of Utica [see pi. 2] 



The highest cutting observed lies above the 1000 foot con- 

 tour, on the northwest-facing slope, over 1 mile south of the 

 three reservoirs. Like nearly all the stream channelings on 

 steep hillsides, it shows as a notch or terrace in the slope, with 

 a steep, concave bank, the northern river bank having been the 

 ice front. Another cutting occurs y 2 mile to the north, between 

 the 800 foot and 900 foot contours. 



A capacious and typical channel lies south of Devereux hill, 

 1 mile south of Utica city line. It begins as a cut bank on 

 the west-facing slope nearly a mile south of Forest Hill ceme- 

 tery. Swinging around between the hills, it forms eastward a 

 decided channel 40 to 60 rods wide at bottom and a mile long. 

 Its eastward termination is a cut bluff south of the three 

 reservoirs. The altitude of this channel is about 800 feet at 

 the head and 700 feet at the east end. This channel carried 

 the overflow of the later Sauquoit waters at the time when 

 the broad, shallow channel east of Clinton was pouring a slow 

 flood into the Sauquoit waters from the Oriskany lake at the 

 Clinton stage. 



Northwest of the head of the channel described above are 

 two cuttings, one at about 640 feet lying on the road leading 

 to Forest Hill cemetery, the other at about 600 feet following 

 along the highway between New Hartford and Utica. These 

 two banks curve around the slope and unite to make the ele- 

 gant, smooth, concave bank of river erosion which forms the 

 north base of Devereux hill, in the south edge of Utica, with 

 hight about 600 feet. 



1 Since the above was written, Prof. Charles H. Smyth of Clinton has noted 

 several lower scour ways on the east wall of the valley near Clinton. These are 

 not mapped on plate 2. 



