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Frank Carney 
TOPOGRAPHY OF THE FINGER LAKE REGION. 
General statement. The wide, prevailingly mature, lake-bear- 
ing valleys of central New York have received critical attention 
from workers in many lines of geology. Less attention, however, I 
has been given to the more mature defunct valleys generally trans- ji| 
verse to these. It is the unusual parallelism of the former, and Jj 
their marked scenic beauty resulting from the variously interrupted . 
Fig. 4. The horizon of the Wisconsin drift is fairly well defined by the vegeta- 
tion; the steep bare slope consists of very compact bluish till. 
drainage history, that impel the comment of even the untrained 
observer. These long valleys opening to the north were occupied 
during the waning stage of the ice-sheet by valley glaciers^® or 
by valley lobes which were relatively broad — a condition due to 
the iceward slope of the valleys. 
H. L. F airchild, American Journal of Science, vol. vii (1899), pp. 252, 253. 
