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be designated No. 1 and the next west No. 2. Other lines may 
exist buried beneath and masked by the kame deposits. 
No. 1 (Figs. 1, 2.) This may branch from No. 2. As an 
independent ridge it proceeds from its head (about a quarter of 
a mile below Calvary Cemetery) southward and almost parallel 
with the Cincinnati Pike to a point almost opposite Dorothy 
Lane (Fig. 1) where it ends in a cut. The upper end of this esker 
though distinctly ridged is not as typically esker-like as the lower 
end. Intersections between No. 1 and No. 2 occur near their 
southern terminals. These intersections at one point form a 
“Y”, the base of which starts from No. 1, the branches leading 
to No. 2. At all the intersections, four in number, the ridges 
Fig. 2. View looking north on esker No. 1. 
rise, forming knoll-like prominences. Small boulders about the 
size of cobbles are abundant on the surface. These are largely 
of local limestone of the same formation (Cincinnati) as that seen 
in the rock spur before mentioned. The exposed cut at the road 
shows principally coarse gravel mingled with sand. Some of this 
gravel has been cemented together into a form of conglomerate 
by the action of carbonated water. 19 Several feet of till contain¬ 
ing a large percentage of small boulders overlies the gravel at 
this point. This exposed section at the time of the writer’s 
first visit revealed the anticlinal stratification frequently men¬ 
tioned in offering sub-glacial theories of origin. This may pos¬ 
sibly be explained, however, by slumping of the material after 
19. E. Orton, Geol. Surv., of O., (1869), p. 146. 
