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About one mUe up the valley is another elongate ridge about one-third 

 of a mile in length, some three or four hundred yards in width and with 

 an elevation of some eighty feet above the valley floor. This is found In 

 section 9, Bean Blossom ToAvnship. and illustrated in sketch Map No. I, 

 and by the photogi-aph plate II. The same topographic feature is again 

 duplicated in section 24, Bean Blossom Township. This illustration is 

 locally known as Lost Ridge. This case is not so centrally located as the 

 former one, but lies close to the east side of valley— but still sepai*ated 

 from it by a hundred yards or more of flat floor. As in other cases, tlie 

 ti-end of its slopes and that of the adjacent valley slope shows such an 

 alignment as to strongly suggest attachment beneath the present valley 

 floor. See sketch map No. II. Photograph plate III gives some idea of 



Sketch Map Xo. II. Section 24. Bean Blossom Township. 



steep slopes, presented by an end view of the Ridge. Other cases of the 

 same thing might be enumerated, but the above are sufficient to show the 

 type of relief consequent upon the more complete stages of burial of the 

 spurs near the central part of the preglacial valley. 



As a further test of partially aggraded vallej'', we should also expect to 

 find as additional criteria, spurs of variable relief but attached to the valley 

 slopes by narrow necks, still above the present level of the valley floor. 

 Moreover, various stages of the tied-on knob or ridge ought to be in evi- 

 dence if the present width of Bean Blossom is due to aggrading. Such 

 additional stages are fairly well shown in contour sketch map No. I, 

 where three small cases of attached knobs may be seen. A still better 

 case is shown in the pen sketch, which occurs in section 32, Washington 

 Township. A photograph of one, the south knob, is shown in Plate IV. 

 Variation in the widths and elevation of the necks connecting the partially 

 buried spur is well illustrated in the sketch. 



