Identifier: HistoricalCollectionsOfOhio1891V2 (find matches)
Title: Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Subjects: Ohio -- Biography Ohio -- History Ohio -- Local History Ohio -- Description and travel
Publisher: Columbus : Henry Howe & Son

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unglaciated. To this must be added anequal amount from the area farther backwhose drainage was then into the upperOhio. This makes forty feet per year ofwater so contributed to this lake-basin.Furthermore, this supply would all be fur-nished in the six months of warm weather,and to a large degree in the daytime, whichgives the rate above mentioned. The breaking away of the barrier to such a,body of water is no simple affair. As thiswriter remarks : 4 The Ohio of to-day in flood is a terribledanger to the valley, but the Ohio then musthave been a much more formidable river tothe dwellers on its banks. The muddy watersrolled along, fed by innumerable rills ofglacier-milk, and often charged with ice andstones. The first warm days of spring werethe harbinger of the coming flood, whichgrew swifter and deeper as the summercame, and only subsided as the falling tem-perature of autumn locked up with frost theglacier fountains. The ancient Ohio riversystem was in its higher part a multitude of
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HAMILTON COUNTY. 19 glacial torrents rushing off the^ ice-sheet,carrying all before them, waxing strongbeneath the rising sun, till in the afternoonthe roar of the waters and their stony burdenreached its maximum, as the sun slowlysank again diminished, and gradually diedaway during the night, reaching its minimumat sunrise. But with the steady amelioration of theclimate, more violent and sudden floods en-sued. The increasing heat of summer com-pelled the retreat of the ice from the Ken-tucky shore, where Covington and Newportnow lie, and so lowered its surface that itfell below the previous out-flow point. Thewaters then took their course over the dam,instead of passing, as formerly, up the Lick-ing and down the Kentucky river valleys.The spectacle of a great ice-cascade, or oflong ice-rapids, was then exhibited at Cin-cinnati. This cataract or these sapids musthave been several hundred feet high. Downthese cliffs or this slope the water dashed,melting its own channel, and breaking u

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