Pleistocene Features — Fairchild. 141 
conspicuous, either in the valley bottom or banked against 
the walls. (The Tully sheet covers all this area.) 
Between Jamesville and Syracuse the road passes 
through the grandest of the ancient river channels, the 
■"Railroad" channel, which is a fourth of a mile wide and 
150 feet deep, mostly in Onondaga limestone. (Syracuse 
sheet.) 
Approaching Syracuse from the North — The two branches 
of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg railroad, and the 
Oswego division of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 
railroad leading into Syracuse from the north, all lie on the 
Iroquois lake-bottom but encounter few striking features, 
though all the ordinary forms of drift appear. At the junc- 
tion of the two branches of the Rome, Watertown and 
Ogdensburg at Woodward, the railroad cuts across a heavy 
ridge or bar of lake Iroquois (Syracuse sheet). From 
Adams Center south to Richland Junction, more than 20 
miles, the R., W. & O. lies on the west (lakeward) side of 
the heavy Iroquois beach, carrying a "ridge road." (Pu- 
laski. Sacketts Harbor and Watertown sheets.) 
Approaching Syracuse from the west by the Auburn 
branch of the New York Central railroad — At Victor this 
line is in a great channel of Glacial flow, which it again tra- 
Acrses from Clifton Springs through Phelps to near Geneva. 
At Halfway Station it enters another striking channel, 
which it follows through Camillus to near Syracuse. This 
is on the Baldwinsville sheet. 
