56 



NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



The Warren shores extend up the Cattaraugus embayment as 

 far as Versailles, as already stated. On the north side of the creek 

 the shore has not been traced, but it appears west of Fenton and 

 south of Brant in four broad sand bars running northeast and 

 southwest across the highways at Brant. These are nearly of the 

 same hight, the westerly one on the curving margin of the 

 sand plain seeming the stronger, lying along the 760 contour of 

 the map. These bars are lower Warren, and lie on the western 

 edge of a great detrital plain which seems to have buried the 

 morainal surface, since the lower ground contiguous on the west 

 is a pronounced moraine [see p 13]. 



The beach crosses the east and west road at the creek, east of 

 Brant, and extends northeast 3 miles to Pontiac. The higher War- 

 ren lies if miles east of Brant, on the east side of four-corners, and 

 follows along the north and south road for a mile, then curves around 

 to the east as a cliff in dark shale at the north end of the Whittlesey 

 island described above. Farther to the southeast the lower Warren 

 forms a bar at the four-corners 1 mile west of Collins, and near the 

 Whittlesey shore. On the road leading north from this bar at the 

 road corners are several bars at lower levels, the lowest along the 

 south side of the east and west Townline road, and about 15 feet 

 lower than the higher Warren. 



The village of North Collins stands on a gravel plain some 20 or 

 25 feet under the Whittlesey level, which plain is probably a filling 

 dropped in the lake by glacial drainage from the northeast past 

 Eden ; and the complex of bars westward as far as Brant is the 

 work of waves on the extended and sloping delta plain. The 

 altitudes at North Collins are generalized as follows: Whittlesey 

 850, higher Warren 800, lower Warren 780, using the railroad at 

 the village as 830 feet. The locality is one of special interest as 

 it has an unusual development of glacial lake features, which will 

 repay careful study and precise measuring. 



North Collins to Hamburg. From North Collins to a mile beyond 

 Eden, a distance of 6 miles, the Whittlesey shore lies along the east 

 side of the highway and railroad mainly as a cliff, although the 

 cliffs may have been partly formed by glacial stream cutting. 

 Beyond North Collins for 2 miles.it exists as a bar, and shows well 

 where it crosses the east and west road, 2 miles from the village. 



Beyond Eden village the Whittlesey beach swings northeast, 

 and east of the south branch of Eighteenmile creek it forms a bar 

 along the crooked road i£ miles southeast of Eden Valley, and as 

 a cl ff it curves around the high ground and crosses the roads lead- 



