Their southern ends are characterized by glacial hanging valleys leading to waterfalls in such areas as Fillmore Glen and Watkins Glen.
The western half of the region in which they are found comprised the Phelps and Gorham Purchase of 1790, the world's largest land purchase at the time. Their southern ends are characterized by glacial hanging valleys leading to waterfalls in such areas as Fillmore Glen and Watkins Glen. There are eleven of them in total and four of them – Conesus, Hemlock, Canadice, and Otisco – are known as the "minor" ones. Several of them are named for Indian tribes once indigenous to the area, including Owasco, Cayuga, and Senega. FTP, name this group of thin lakes in upstate New York.
The western half of the region in which they are found comprised the Phelps and Gorham Purchase of 1790, the world's largest land purchase at the time.
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