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three miles is northeast; then east for three miles, passing through Ridge- 
way corners to the village of Oak Orchard, where it is only six and a 
half miles from Lake Ontario; thence, with a slight curve, its course is 
a little north of east to Gaines Corners, where it is six miles from the 
lake; from Gaines its course is firstly northeast for about two miles, 
when it bends gently to the southeast, and passing through Sandy-creek- 
ville it enters the county of Monroe at a distance of nearly eight miles 
from the lake. 
At Ridgeway the ridge is very distinct, and about one hundred yards 
wide at the base, by measurement. A mile east, the ridge is a little 
uneven, and there is a rise and fall in the road, which consists of fine 
sand; and two hills, like those raised by the waves and winds on the 
present shore, extend south beyond the regular ridge. Between this 
place and Oak Orchard it is quite distinct and high, and the northern 
slope is regular, but the southern is mostly wanting, as the top of the 
ridge, which here is twelve feet high, extends on a level for from two 
hundred to three hundred yards to the bank of Oak Orchard creek. 
This creek runs from Ridgeway to Oak Orchard, three miles, parallel 
to and a little south of the ridge, and in one place approaches to within 
twenty feet of the ridge road : altogether the road is nearer the creek 
between these two places than marked on Burr's map. 
In the western edge of the village of Oak Orchard the ridge turns to 
the south and crosses the creek obliquely between two mills to the south 
side of a small creek which comes in from the east, which creek it fol- 
lows up for a short distance, then crosses it by again turning to the 
north, and gradually approaches and reunites with the ridge road more 
than a mile east of the village. The character of this disturbance or in- 
terruption of the ridge, where Oak Orchard creek cuts through it, is pre- 
cisely such as we notice in the present beach of the lake at the mouths 
of creeks. The ridge bends in towards the south, forming as it were a 
litle bay, and comes again into line about two miles east. The creek 
here widens and has quite a bottom, and altogether the appearances 
suggest the idea that this spot was the former mouth of Oak Orchard 
creek, and that there was a small bay running into the land. 
Where Otter creek crosses the ridge, it presents a similar disturbance, 
and at Sandy-creekville, the ridge also bends a little to the south, but 
soon returns into line. All the instances of disturbances are to the 
south of the regular line of the ridge. 
