TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING. oF 
the county, it traverses the county westward and crosses the west line of the 
county about 10 miles north of the southwest corner. Its length in the county is 
about 30 miles, though the county is but 24 miles across. 
For 10 or 12 years, since teaching at Richland, I have been interested in trac- 
ing out this line in the eastern part of the county, and have walked repeatedly 
over every foot of it from the east county line to Burnett’s mound. The boul- 
ders are found continuously on the south edge of the bluffs north of the Waka- 
_ rusa from the east line of the county to the mouth of Lynn creek. The boulder 
belt follows up Lynn creek to Tevis and Berryton, and continues in the same gen- 
eral course past Pauline and school district No. 11 to the southwest quarter of sec- 
tion 23 (township 12 south, range 15 east), half a mile from the ridge running south 
from Burnett’s mound. Here it turns sharply to the north and runs along the 
crest of a ridge on the west side of sections 23 and 14, across the M. I. Lee place 
and to the Hoffman farm, on section 11, just south of the Shunganunga, two miles 
- north of the turning point. Here it disappears. 
A recent attempt, after much previous searching, to find the lost moraine, in 
- company with Dr. Wm. Smith, sr., resulted in finding it in an unexpected place, 
_ namely: covered up in the bottom of the Shunganunga creek, and extending for 
two miles up the valley of the creek. It reappears on the Hammond place, at the 
southwest corner of section 16, south of the creek and in a line with that part of 
moraine east of the mound. From this point it continues across the county ina 
_ line north of west, agreeing with that portion in the eastern part of the county. 
THE BuritED MoRAINE. 
The first evidence of it in the creek bottom is by the creamery south of Sea- 
brook, and just northwest of the Hoffman place. Here there are a number of 
large boulders, the largest nearly spherical, and about five feet in diameter. 
They are well water-worn, as are all boulders lying in the bottom of the creek. 
I had no difficulty in tracing the moraine up the valley of the creek, although 
there was no evidence of it at the surface; for, walking southwestwardly in a 
straight line in the direction I believed the moraine ought to lie, every time I 
came to a bend in the creek I saw boulders in abundance in the creek bottom, 
_ even to a depth of three feet at the middle of the moraine. At such places the 
boulders were visible in the banks up toa height of 10 feet or more. Wherever the 
creek crosses the moraine.at right angles the breadth across it, measuring along 
the bed of the creek, is from 25 to 40 paces. Going down stream, and approach- 
ing the moraine, the bottom of the creek slopes upward, until the middle of the 
moraine is reached, then it slopes rapidly downward. The difference in level of 
the mid-morainic and non-morainic portions of the creek bottom is about three 
_ feet; that is, the non-morainic portions of the creek bottom would need to have 
three feet or more of water before it would commence flowing over tke boulders 
farther down. 
The banks of the creek are generally about 25 feet high. The lower 10 or 15 
feet is composed of drift material and boulders; the upper portion is native 
earth, washed in from the surrounding hills, effectually obscuring the boulders 
except where exposed by subsequent wash. 
At one of the southerly bends or loops, say the third from the creamery, the 
creek reaches the moraine from the northwest, turns and runs along the top of 
the moraine for about eight rods, then turns and runs off to the north again. 
‘This stretch is payed with boulders. Near the middle of the bend several blocks 
of limestone lie on top of the boulders in such a way as to indicate that they had 
fallen from some overhanging cliff on the south side of the creek. An inspection 
of these blocks, which contain a few fusulina and a very few other fossils, 
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