300 THE GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ. 



near the northeast corner of section 4, (lai-tield It is a smooth g-ravel 

 ridge, in some parts hidden by scattered groves, with its crest 1,165 to 

 1,175 feet above the sea. Farther east is a large area of woodhind. The 

 second Herman beach, in the east part of section 5, this township, and sec- 

 tion 32, Godfrey, abont a mile west from the upper beach, has a lieight of 

 1,149 to 1,153 feet, being a ridge of gravel and sand abont 40 rods wide, 

 with very gentle, prolonged slopes toward both the east and west. Natural 

 sui-face at the northeast corner of section 32, Crodfrey, 1,146 feet. Third 

 Herman beach, running north, in the northwest quarter of section 5, Gar- 

 field, and the west part of section 32, Godfrey, a half or two-tliirds of a 

 mile west from the last, 1,130 to 1,135 feet, consisting of a distinct ridge 

 • in its southern part, but farther north being a flat area of gravel and sand, 

 slightly elevated above the land next east. 



Second Herman beach, a broad, low ridge of gravel and sand, extend- 

 ing north-noi-theast through section 28, Godfrey, from its si^uthwest corner 

 to its north line, 1,148 to 1,150 feet. The northward continuation of this 

 beach is a low, flattened ridge, the western one of two parallel ridges of 

 gravel below that of the upper beach, extending northeasterly and north- 

 erly through or near the west edge of section 10, Godfrey, 1,150 to 1,154 

 feet. Through the next 3 miles in section 3, Godfrey, and in the east part 

 of sections 35 and 26 and the northwest quarter of section 25, Tilden, it is 

 a prominent beach ridge, with its crest at 1,153 to 1,161 feet, somewhat 

 steep on its east side, Avliich descends about 10 feet to a belt of lowland 

 and marsh that divides it from tlie parallel beach a quarter to a third of a 

 mile east. 



The eastern one of these parallel beach ridges is only 8 or 10 feet below 

 the average elevation of the upper beach. It probably marks a slight rise 

 of the laud here; biTt no corresponding beach formation has been observed 

 on this latitude in North Dakota. It is clearly continuous 8 miles, tlie first 

 4 miles extending northerly and the next 4 miles easterly. These parts are 

 connected in section 25, Tilden, by a graceful curve, that portion of this 

 beach and its extent thenci eastward being known as the "Attix ridge," 

 from Henry and William Attix, brothers, who have built their houses upon 

 it. lu its northward course, nearly tlu'ough the middle of sections 10 and 



