SANDUSKY BAY AND CEDAR POINT Palle 
at any place extend out into wide reaches of sand flats for the 
water off shore deepens more rapidly than that adjacent to the 
terminal portion of Cedar Point. Away from the lake the slope 
is quite gradual and the distance from crest to marsh is between 
eleven and sixteen rods throughout a great part of the length. 
In the vicinity of the west line of Huron Township and the mouth 
of the Black Channel the breadth is twenty-four rods or more. 
Quite near Rye Beach the breadth in the fall of 1904 was only 
2-4 rods and most of the way for the first mile between three and 
six rods. In a number of places the lake has washed the sand 
over onto the marsh making little projections two or three rods 
long, so that the shore of the marsh has not an even outline like 
that of the lake. Some of these were made in 1904 and others 
apparently within a year or two before. 
COMPOSITION OF THE Bar. 
The visible material of the bar like that of the remainder of 
Cedar Point is largely sand, consisting of quartz, magnet te and 
garnet, but unlike the remaind r it has throughout its whole 
length gravel at the surface. On the bare beach the gravel is 
abundant and many of the pebbles are as large as hens’ eggs, the 
quantity and to some extent the size increasing as one goes 
toward Huron, the direction from which they have come. They 
consist largely of quartzite and other metamorphic rocks derived 
presumably from boulders in the clay between Rye Beach and 
Huron. Limestone is scarce and not from any beds in the 
vicinity. Shale fragments flat, angular and dark are scattered 
over the beach or strewn thickly upon the sand more or less 
apart from the hard pebbles. They too increase in abundance 
as one approaches Dr. Esch’s place where a bed of Ohio shale 
outcrops, showing many spherical calcareous concretions three 
feet in diameter, some of them with tops cut off by the glacier 
and still bearing the scratches. 
Near Rye Beach fragments of brick of various sizes, rounded 
like the other pebbles, attract attention by their red color. 
These are probably from a brick house belonging to Jabez 
Wright, grandfather of Mrs. Esch, and a well known surveyor 
three quarters of a century ago. The house stood north of the 
present shore and south of a road, on the north side of which was 
an orchard. The lake took the orchard, the road, the house, 
and finally the man, who after a dark night was found dead at 
the base of a high bank where the lake had encroached upon the 
new road. 
A list of the things washed ashore or drifted along the 
Cedar Point beach would fill pages. Among the more common 
