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a few rods west of Bosworth road, after which this road follows 

 the ridge to Bellaire road, in North Linndale. The western trib- 

 utary of Big creek runs parallel with this spit for about 80 rods. 



Some scattered ridges of gravel exist south of Big creek on 

 the opposite shore of this embayment. 



After the Alaumee lake level had finally established a ctjn- 

 tinuous shore line across the valley of Big creek, the beach-form- 

 ing agencies must have worked uninterruptedly for a long period. 

 From the intersection of the Big Four track with the Berea road 

 northeast of Rockport, eastward to the present channel of Big 

 creek in the vicinity of the West Shore railroad, the shore is a 

 beach-ridge and clitt averaging about 23 feet in height and hav- 

 ing a sharp front slope. In the northwest part of Rockport vil- 

 lage are depressions representing a lagoon developed in the 

 growth of this beach, but eastward to the West Shore railroad, 

 the ridge, simple in construction, consists of ordinarv shore 

 gravels. At the West Shore railroad, however, it divides ; one 

 of these divisions terminates on the edge of the creek bluff, but 

 probably reappears again in a slight gravel ridge overlving 

 moraine, south of the creek; the other arm, later in development, 

 trends southeast, terminating in the bluff" near West Park ceme- 

 tery. 



For the next one-half mile, I was unable to find any gravels, 

 but the shore line appears to be indicated by a cliff cut in the 

 moraine; nearing Brooklyn, however, beach gravels again ap- 

 pear. Street grading and other structural work have so modified 

 topography here that one can not decide whether the ridge 

 through a part of Brooklyn is of barrier origin, or of regular 

 beach construction. South of Brooklyn, as the Schaaf road di- 

 verges to the east, the Maumee level is plainly marked ; the high- 

 est part of the beach here bears much sand, suggesting subaque- 

 ous origin. 



Ea.st from this point the higher Maumee level is not defi- 

 nitely marked. Xorth of Independence, the slope has been 

 steepened possibly by wave-work, and possibly by stream-work 

 when the glacier extended southward into the Cuyahoga valley, 

 ponding the drainage which escaped westward along the edge 



