36 Lake Maxinkuckee, Physical and Biological Survey 



of a granitoid nature projecting out on the narrow beach from 

 the base of the hill. 



From Murray's to Farrar's there is a rather broad and toler- 

 ably bare sandy or gravelly beach, with moderately coarse gravel 

 in the bottom. The shore is low and level, the ice-beach being the 

 highest ground. The next section of about 1,000 feet east of Far- 

 rar's presents a strong contrast to the preceding, the immediate 

 shore being a low marshy woodland with a well-defined ice-beach 

 near the water's edge. The ridge is narrow, 2 or 3 feet high, and 

 practically cuts off a strip which otherwise would be a part of 

 the lake. In some places there is a second, similar ice-ridge paral- 

 lel to the first and some distance back of it. Both of these ice- 

 ridges bear trees of considerable size, some of them 6 inches or 

 more in diameter and 20 feet high. The shore is flat and mucky 

 and full of muskrat holes. It is thickly covered in some places 

 by the three-cornered bulrush (Scirpus americanus). It is too 

 miry to walk on between the water-line and the ice-ridge ; one has 

 to walk on the ridge in places. 



Following this flat shore is a stretch of 110 feet of fine sandy 

 beach, where a hill comes down to the shore. This is in line with 

 a public road, and is used for a boat-landing. There is a broad 

 beach of fine yellow sand, and a gravelly shelly bottom, bare and 

 sandy a distance out from shore. The break in the rush patch is 

 probably due to boats going over this region. 



Then occurs a stretch of about 850 feet reaching from the end 

 of the sandbar mentioned above to the place where the forest comes 

 to the shore. 



In general this shore is a good deal alike throughout its extent, 

 is nearly flat, and has behind it most of the way an ice-ridge sepa- 

 rating it from a large swamp behind ; all of the shore is soft, and 

 it extends out into the lake as a long broad cape. The apex point 

 of the cape is sand, but both sides, especially the northern side, 

 are tolerably black on top from a scum of decaying vegetation. 



The hill which forms the border of the swamp approaches the 

 lake, but does not reach it, so that there lies a flattish, rich, but 

 dry and elevated plain between it and the lake. This plain is well 

 forested. At this place the hill is cut in two by a deepish and 

 rather wide gully with moderately steep, but well rounded sides, 

 cut by Overmyer's Brook which enters the lake at this point and 

 forms a large flat sharp delta of sand which projects out for a 

 considerable distance into the lake. The delta holds a sort of 

 lagoon, and at the northeast edge of the delta the stream and waves 

 have combined to form a sandbar with a sharp apex and an almost 



