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Another feature of this level of the Alauniee stage is found 

 in the off-shore bars which are not strictly of the barrier type. 

 The second highway east of Xorth Olmsted, running to the 

 north, passes along a north-south ridge of gravel and sand. 

 Reaching eastward from the termini of this ridge are compound 

 spits that represent the work of west winds. This bar and its 

 appended sjiits with their like orientation indicate a shallow 

 place in the water occasioned probably by a ridge of glacial drift. 

 Smooth-surfaced till, rather stony in texture, is found in the 

 fields east and west of this ridge. Wells sunk in the ridge also 

 penetrate drift, but throughout its whole extent the ridge is cov- 

 ered with gravel from 5 to 14 feet in thickness. The spits that 

 have grown from the ends of this ridge present several interest- 

 ing features, especially in their constant trend to the east, in their 

 gradual variation in texture from coarser gravels to fine sand 

 eastward, and in the lagoons formed by the development of sec- 

 ondary spits from the windward side of the angle made bv the 

 main bar and the spit already developed. 



A short one-half mile northeast of Goldwood is a cusp 

 fringed by a barrier. The cusp is about 50 rods long ; between 

 it and the barrier is a lagoon. 



Eastward towards the river, just before crossing the road 

 which leads north to Rockport, is a short barrier with a lagoon 

 in its rear. From the intersection of the Rockport road with 

 the main shore, another ridge extends north-eastward ; this, 

 throughout nearly the whole of its one-half mile length, shows 

 a strong development, in places 4 to 6 rods wide on top, and hav- 

 ing a sharp back-slope. 



Continuing eastward along this lower level of the ]Maumee 

 Lake, we find on the opposite side of the river, west and north 

 of the Rockport race track, a short slope due to wave work on 

 the shales thus forming a cliff'. For some distance this shore 

 line is indistinct, but reappears about one-half mile northeast of 

 j\Iunn road, in a strongly developed gravel ridge which swings 

 due east after crossing Warren road. It shortly blends into a 

 low ridge of clay. The interpretation of this clay ridge was 

 puzzling for some time; it is plainlv not of glacial origin, and is 



