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cated for about one mile l)y Jlilliard road, but at the intersection 

 of West Madison avenue, the beach swings (hrectly to the east, 

 and changes from a gravel ridge to a cut chff shown in the steep 

 slope just north of this avenue. From Ridgewood avenue, east- 

 ward to the Lake Shore railway, the course of the beach is not 

 definite ; but upon crossing the Lake Shore, it comes in once more 

 in its beach-ridge phase and thus continues to the neighborhood 

 of the intersection of Fulton road and Denison avenue. From 

 Lorain street almost to Fulton road, this ridge originated as a 

 spit developing into the Cuyahoga embayment, and for over one- 

 half of the distance, for some period of time, appears to have 

 formed the shore while the other half apparently was still sub- 

 acjueous. 



From F'ulton road to the western part of Brooklyn, what- 

 ever development this beach had obtained has since been oblit- 

 erated by the erosion- work of Big creek. Its course through 

 Brooklyn is somewhat doubtful because of street grading and 

 other destructive work. The best exposure of the beach-ridge 

 in this vicinity is along the west side of Broadview avenue just 

 east of West 25th street ; for about 80 rods the beach thus con- 

 tinues ; it then swings southward across Broadview and flattens 

 out. A short distance farther to the south I noted a wave-cut 

 cliff parallel to Scarsdale avenue, which turns southward cross- 

 ing Roanoke and Tate avenues. Beyond this point the shore of 

 Lake Whittlesey was at first parallel to, and later coincided with, 

 the lower beach of Lake Maumee. This horizontal coincidence 

 has given the lower Alaumee beach a steep front-slope, the dif- 

 ference in the level of the two lakes measuring the vertical dis- 

 tance through which the older beach may have been over-steep- 

 ened. On the opposite side of the Cuyahoga river, about one 

 and one-half miles north of Willow, we find parallel with Inde- 

 pendence road, a bar one-half mile in length ; the southern part 

 of this is nearly north-south in direction, but the northern half 

 swings eastward in conformation with the outlines of the Cuya- 

 hoga embayment. Sand and gravel of contemporaneous devel- 

 opment were noted along 59th street, south of Harvard avenue. 

 For some distance northward this beach could not be definitelv 



