Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-19


f.x to The glacial period The last great
sion OF ice buried all OF New England.
.l M New York State except a small
ana near Salamanca. all of the basins o4
r Great Lakes. and the Mississippi Val
f.- far south as nearly TO The mouth
.. tHe ohio river.
This icc body some thousands of feet
90 thickness. uncovered the land il had
aided. not by general melting or IT'S
s.-fI.. but by the slow recession Of its
t-0rt4c. The summer floods from the
..ula and the ice melting carried i'm
u.ase quantities OF gravel down the south
...u- valleys. and hled them deeply
rI-h Pho gatritus When the ice front
r.,ratel 20 the north side of the divide
s.rr ng to-day the nOrthward drainage
rt t.- 50. Lawrence from the southwark
a. of the Mississippi and Susque-
l.rra fh- waters were impounded be-
tween .ha joe front and the north-sloping
JAN. surfaces.
The -acier occupied the Laurentian
ts present low northward ana
ta..N. masses. and consequently all the
waters urc forced across tne divide To
f..st ard. when the west end of the
Superior basin was uncovered IL hcid q
glacial se. which we now call Lake
N..rI n The same way "a local glacial
ID .Mlan basin. known to-day as
L... Chicago. and an the western end
tH. BASIN called now Lake Maumee.
.l. lowest OF the three outlets Of these
.E. was that of Lake Chicago. which
t.mad tine channel now utilized boy the
Chic. goo drainage canal. Eventually. nN
continued recession Of the ice front,
I was uncovered either side of The
Michigan valley. lower than the ST.
0e
N.lne outlet OF Lake Naumee. and the
-acago outlet robbed the two higher
lets.
The high glacial waters in the Erie
n were finally extended north and
U.t by the continued recession OF the Zee
.n until they covered an Of the Erie
"r the lower Huron basin, and the
'hwes,ern part Of the Ontario basin.
.t.-e waters are row called Lake War
r.u. Al This time the ic1 front lay against
the hira lrolnd southwark from syria
c'st. rId therefore blocked the low pass
oy the Mohawk valley which was lower
n aluta.n tha0 the Chicago outlet OF
Lake Warren waters.
AS the ice front weakened ana receded
the rfiaDu-. region the Warren
waters which formed in New York "a belt
D' several mile, width along the ice bor-
c0r and reached southwark up the valleys
of the present Ginger lakes. crept east
ward al their proper level
one summer day the critical moment
r.me and tlc high water found escape
O. fward past the icc t1 the omen Mo-
b SIX Hudson. 4 first this may have been
.l insignificant splitting but inc flow in-
creased and, with The dOwncutting Of
te waste-weir an Irresistible Cow was
tabished. The FIRST splWay cannot
f.0clsciy locate. but it is certainly one
p two casl-and-Wcst gorges Goo rock. one
bong two miles east OF JamcsWuc. the
oler TWO miles southwest.
NIih the farther retreat OF the ice
i.nf other lower canyons were cut. and
series Of great rock cuts were made
.D0ne ocrOss the ridges that separated
ae north and south valleys IN which the
Eara waters were ponded at their sue
nso levels. The most western of the
.alnas heads on the Onondaga lime
sane about four miles north by east Of
asanec teles and conveyed The flood Of
iffI-Wafren waters eastward 40 the
o.o valley. building huge delta south
w AaIcelus village.
f.om this valley the waters escaped 10
zoe Onon1aga valley By another splendid
.oayor east Of Marcellus, with an enor-
Nous delta az South Onondaga village.
from fne OnOnd9ga Valley three me
'Aycns lead east 10 the Butiernut Vel
near GAINESVILLE The lowest ana
N.i ~ these is the great rock cut utl-
py thc Delaware. f.ackaWara ana
"'@'ein railroad IN passing from syria