402 The American Geologist. June, l»96 
and Scarboro'. Lakes Algonquin and Iroquois, the Eormer outflowing 
to the latter along the present sites of lakes St. Clair and Erie and the 
Niagara river, date from the opening of the Rome outlet. Continuing 
northward, the Algonquin water plane of the southern part of the Hu- 
ron basin, where it was first explored and named, must, according to 
the view winch I hold, be represented by the very conspicuous Nipis- 
sing beach mapped by Taylor and Lawson from lake Nipissing to Du- 
luth, with minor closely allied and nearly parallel water planes depen 
dent on the variable direct ion and rate of contemporaneous epeirogenic 
uplifting and on the considerable filling of the area of the river and lake 
St. Clair with lacustrine sand, analogous with the great accumulation of 
beach and dune sand at the south end of lake Michigan. 
One further remark \w&y conclude the present discussion, namely, 
that the volume of the Niagara river, as I first pointed out in the Amer- 
ican Geologist, for July, 1894 (vol. xv, pp. 6.3-G5), has been nearly as 
now during probably all its history, receiving the drainage of all the 
region of the upper Laurentian lakes. This will lie accepted, as I sup- 
pose, by Mr. Taylor, not less than by me, whether the high shores of 
the northern Huron and Superior basins shall be found to belong to 
lake Warren or to lake Algonquin, if both, as we now alike think, were 
held in on the Ottawa region by the departing ice sheet. 
St. Paul,Minn., May 15, 18-96. Warren Upha.m. 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
/. Government and State Reports. 
University Geol. Sur. of Kansas, vol. 1, xii-f-320 pp., 31 pis. Topeka, 
1896. A geologic section from Galena to Wellington, G. I. Adams; A 
geologic section from Baxter Springs to the Nebraska state line, Eras- 
mus Haworth and John Bennett: A geologic section along the Neosho 
river irom the Mississippi formation of the Indian Territory to Council 
Grove, Kas., and along the Cottonwood river from Wyckofl to Cedar 
Grove, M. Z. Kirk; A geologic section along the Missouri Pacific railway 
from the state line in Bourbon Co. to Yates Center in Woodson Co., 
John Bennett; A geologic section from the state line opposite Boicourt to 
Alma, principally along the Osage river, J. G. Hall; A geologic section 
along the Kansas river and its tributary, Mill creek, from Kansas City 
to McFarland, John Bennett; A section from Manhattan to Abilene, 
G. I. Adams; A geologic section from Cott'eyville to Lawrence, Erasmus 
Haworth: A geologic section along the Central Branch of the Missouri 
Pacific railway, from Atchison to Barnes, E. B. Knerr; Resume of the 
stratigraphy and correlations of the Carboniferous formation. Erasmus 
Haworth: Physiographic features of the Carboniferous, E. Haworth: 
The coal fields of Kansas, E. Haworth: Oil and gas in Kansas, E. Ha- 
worth; Surface gravels, E. Haworth: The Coal Measure soils, E. Ha 
worth; A preliminary catalogue of the paleontology of the Carboniferous 
of Kansas, John Bennett. 
