A Conversation for Hamilton Mountain, Ontario, Canada

Hamilton Ontario Canada (amendment)

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Researcher 170742

re: GURUdener's fairly excellent entry concerning the captioned city...

1) As to "Mountain dwellers have the smug satisfaction ... casting an unobstructed, if somewhat wistful,
gaze at distant shimmering Toronto, the self-described "Mega-City"

Well, that all depends on whether or not a temperature inversion and or atypical wind patterns have
cleared away th emissions from the Bessemer convertors and coke ovens or caused them to
be held in situ like some sort of low-lying cloud bank.

2) As to "The disparate altitudes of the two halves of Hamilton are the product of glaciation and erosion
caused by the retreating shoreline of Lake Ontario."

Erosion is more or less correct, but I'm rather dubious about the "glaciation" part. In essence,AFAIK, the
watercourse known today as the river which tumbles over Niagara Falls sculpted much of the
bifurcated topograpghy along the "Escarpment" which runs from up north in the Bruce Peninsula, southerly
through Hamilton and onward to the "Falls where they are located today. Nopte that I say "today" since
they are even so slowly but determinedly proceeding down river.

sejhre

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