296 THE GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ. 



qiiarter of section 26 and the west part of section 23, forming a broad, low 

 ridge of gravel and sand, 1,145 to 1,149 feet. In or near sections 17 and 

 16, Flom, a prominent, massive hill, called "Frenchman's Bluff," of some- 

 what irregular form, composed of morainic till, rises 150 feet or more above 

 this beach. 



Through the west part of the northwest quarter of section 14, Home 

 Lake, tlie beach is mostly a typical gravel ridge, Avith its crest at 1,147 to 

 1,152 feet. In the northwest quarter of section 11, same township, it 

 curves northeastward and attains an unusually massive development, iKs 

 crest being at 1,150 to 1,158 feet, rising 15 feet above the land next south- 

 east and 25 or 30 feet above the border of the area of Lake Agassiz at its 

 northwest side. 



Crest of beach, a well-marked gravel ridge, near the southwest corner 

 of section 1, Home Lake, 1,156 feet, and an eighth of a mile east-northeast 

 from this, 1,150 feet. J. G. Aurdal's house, foundation, in the northeast 

 quarter of section 6, Flom, 1,148 feet. This is situated on the beach, 

 which here is a deposit of gravel and sand 8 feet or more in depth, lying 

 upon a slope of till that ascends southeastward. Anton Johnson's store, 

 foundation, on this beach, in the southeast quarter of section 31, Fosum, 

 1,142 feet. Creek floAving northwesterly between the last two, about 1,105 

 feet. Wild Rice River, 2 miles north of Johnson's store, approximately 

 1,050 feet. 



Secondary Herman beach, a well-marked, broad, smoothly rounded 

 gravel ridge, extending from southwest to northeast, crossed by the town- 

 ship line road at the north side of the northeast quarter of the northwest 

 quarter of section 2, Home Lake, 1,137 feet. It is about 30 rods wide, 

 and rises 5 to 10 feet above the depression at its southeast side. 



A broad belt of timber borders the Wild Rice River, lying mostly on 

 its north side, in Fosum and Wild Rice townships, and at the time of this 

 survey, in 1881, no road or bridge afforded a crossing here. Therefore 

 this series of levels was resumed north of the Wild Rice River by starting 

 from Rolette station of the St. Paul, ^Minneapolis and Manitoba (now the 

 Great Northern) Railway, 892 feet above the sea., near the middle of sec- 

 tion 17, Lockhart, about l.J miles north of the Lockhart farm. Proceeding 



