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made. In Aiagiist, 1881, no houses had been built on this beach, nor 

 within 1 mile from it, along its first 11 miles north from the Red River, the 

 first house found near the beach being in section 26, Akron, in Wilkin 

 County. 



Beach at a low portion, probably in the southeast quarter of section 5, 

 township 132, range 44, 1,075 feet. A lake nearly a mile long lies on the 

 flat lowland about 1^ miles west from this low part of the beach. The 

 elevation of this lake was estimated at 1,055 or 1,050 feet; it is only a few 

 feet lower than the general surface around it. Beach, probably near the 

 north side of this section 5, 1,078 feet On its east side here and for a half 

 mile both to the south and north is a slough, partly filled with good grass 

 and partly with rushes; its width is about a quarter of a mile, and its 

 elevation about 1,070 feet. The land west of the beach descends, within 

 1 or 2 miles, from 1,060 to 1,050 feet. 



Beach at its lowest portion for this vicinity, about a half mile north of 

 the preceding and near the center of section 32, Carlisle, 1,070 to 1,068 

 feet, being only 2 feet above the marsh or slough on its east side. A rail- 

 road gi-ade, abandoned, lies a third of a mile east of this. Beach a fourth 

 of a mile farther north, 1,077 feet, and, about 1 mile north from its lowest 

 portion, 1,075 feet, cut by a ravine, the bottom of Avhich is nearly at 

 1,063 feet. This ravine is some 30 rods west of the abandoned railroad 

 embankment. 



Railroad grade where it crosses the beach, aboiit a mile northwesterly 

 from the ravine mentioned, 1,077 feet. Beach here, 1,076 feet, being 8 to 

 10 feet above the slough on its east side, and having about the same height 

 above the marsh next to it westward. The material of the beach, shown 

 by the railroad embankment, which is made of it along a distance of a third 

 of a mile, is coarse gravel, with abundant pebbles of all sizes up to 6 inches 

 in diameter, fully half of them being limestone. 



Crest of beach in the south half of section 23, Akron, 1,079 to 1,080 

 feet; in the northwest quarter of this section 23, 1,075 to 1,080 feet. 

 Through sections 14, 10, and 3, Akron, the beach does not have its ordi- 

 nary ridged form, but is mostly marked by a deposit of gravel and sand 

 lying upon a slope that rises gradually eastward. Its elevation here is 



