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Crest of beach at B. O. Helde's house, in the south half of the south- 

 west quarter of action 30, Ulen, 1,138 feet. The flat expanse of the Red 

 River Valley reaches east on the South Branch of the Wild Rice River to 

 sec-tion 16. Hagen. probably being there about 975 feet above the sea, or 

 16<.i feet Ix-low this upper Ijeach of Lake Agassiz, 4 or 5 miles southeast 



Beach through sections 30 and 29, Ulen, extending li miles east- 

 northeast fix>m Mr. Helde's to the South Branch of the Wild Rice River, 

 in a low. gently rounded ridge of gravel, 3o rods wide, 5 to 8 feet above 

 the area of till next southeast and about 15 feet above the sxulace close at 

 its northwest side, 1,138 to 1,142, mostly 1,140 feet 



South Branch of Wild Rice River, in the southwest quarter of section 

 21. Ulen, l.t.»95 feet The beach is developed as a topical gravel ridge, in 

 or near the west half of section 16, Ulen, a half mile to IJ miles north of 

 the South Branch, with its crest at 1,140 to 1,143 feet: surface of till an 

 eighth to a quarter of a mile next east, 1,135 feet Farther east the slightlv 

 or moderately tmdulating expanse of till has an average ascent of about 10 

 feet a mile for 15 miles to the base of the liigh land at the White Earth 

 Agency, which is dimly visible, blue, close to the horizon. Westward the 

 surface gradually descends to the Norcross beach, nearly 60 feet lower, 

 which is the farthest land in sight in that direction, about 3 miles distant, 

 beyond which hes the flat Red River Valley. 



Enteiing Norman County, an unusually high portion of the Herman 

 beach is fotmd ia or near the southeast quarter of the southea-st quarter 

 of section 33, Home Lake, having its crest at 1,149 feet It holds tliis 

 elevation for an extent of some 20 rods, on each side of which its height is 

 mostlv fix)m 1,139 to 1.145 feet. Its material is coarse gravel, principallv 

 limestone, with pebbles and cobbles up to 4 and 6 inches in diameter. 

 Surface close east of this beach, 1,137 feet A slight swell above the gen- 

 eral descending slope westward, about 2 miles distant, has a height very 

 nearly 1,125 feet This mavbe the continuation of the secondary beach 

 that was seen in Keene Township. It hides the view farther west, except 

 from the highest point of the beach (1.149 feet), where the distant belts of 

 timber along the Red and Wild Rice rivers are visible. 



Beach at J. T. Huseby's house, in the northwest quarter of section 26, 

 Home Lake, 1.147 feet: through 1^ nules next north, in the northwest 



