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Frank Carney 
the static water. Succeeding this lake stage the heavy ice-front 
drainage spread gravels southward from the vicinity of Red Mill, 
and in the valley east of the Junior Republic kame area. 
Eskers. 
As already noted the eskers of this sheet appear to fall into two ji 
general classes, (i) those that are connected with local topography, I 
and (2) those more or less independent of the details of topog- ;! 
raphy.* There follows a description of the general characteristics j; 
of each of the several eskers on the sheet; their location may be |l 
found on plate XII, which also indicates by arrow the supposed j- 
direction of the esker stream. I 
No. I. This esker originates a short distance southwest of West 1 
Dryden. The altitude of this area is about 1200 feet, and the i 
drift, which is rather Well developed in the vicinity of this village, I 
attains considerable thickness, one dug well having reached a | 
depth of forty feet without encountering rock; the texture of the |i 
material as revealed by this well indicates emphatically a washed- 
deposit origin; the stones contained in it are generally smooth, h 
and there is considerable sand present. So we have in drift \ 
topography about West Dryden a suggestion of conditions that i 
govern kame accumulation. 
This esker measures on the Moravia sheet but three-eighths of i! 
a mile. Its general direction is south approximately 10® west, 
and this course continues for some distance on the Dryden sheet, 
then it turns more to the east. The northern segment of the 
esker, or that on the Moravia quadrangle, so far as revealed by 
one section and by surface appearance abounds in finer material. 
There is no evidence of more than a small amount of coarser 
stones either on the esker or in its environing drift. 
No. 2. This esker has its origin apparently at the first four 
corners east of West Dryden. For one-half mile its course is 
due southeast, parallel to the brook that flows towards Fall creek. 
Then it takes a more easterly course. Farm buildings mark its 
intersection with the next highway to the east. A few rods beyond 
this road the esker divides, one branch bearing north and east, 
while the other takes a southern course passing out of Moravia 
into the Dryden sheet. The vertical range of this esker is about 
140 feet, having a continuous decline. 
