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the last two paragTaphs indicate tliat this area, Avhich was covered b}" a 

 southwardly projecting lobe of the ice-sheet at the time of the accumula- 

 tion of the eighth or Fergus Falls moraine, experienced an earlier uplift 

 than adjacent tracts of the lake border, gi\'ing to this part of the earliest 

 and highest Herman beach an altitude 15 or 20 feet above the normal and 

 regular plane of the corresponding beach deposits on both the south and the 

 north. 



Crest of the Herman l^each, a definite ridge 25 to 30 or 40 rods wide, 

 through the east half of section 2, township 146, range 55, 1,122 to 1,135 

 feet, 10 to 15 feet above the land east, and with a depression of G to 8 feet 

 on the west. In the soiitli part of section 35, township 147, range 55, the 

 beach ridge is merged in a flat eastwardly sloping area of sand and fine 

 gi-avel at 1,135 to 1,120 feet, underlain by till at the depth of a few feet. 

 The beach ridge reappears in the north part of this section 35 at 1,125 to 

 1,130 feet. 



Through sections 26 and 23, township 147, range 55, the Herman shore 

 is marked by swells and flattened ridges of sand and fine gravel at 1,130 to 

 1,143 feet, occupying a width of an eighth to a third of a mile, with a 

 depression of several feet along their west side. Four sloughs, at the ele- 

 vation of about 1,120 feet, lie within the east part of these beach deposits, 

 or on their east border, in the southeast quarter of section 23. In the south 

 part of section 14 this massive but irregular beach has an elevation of 

 1,132 feet on the east side of a large slough. 



In the middle of section 14, township 147, range 55, the beach assumes 

 a definitely ridged form and extends thus northward along the east side of 

 Golden Lake, which owes its existence to this barrier. Crest of the beach, 

 through the center and north part of section 14, 1,132 to 1,137 feet; in 

 section 11, east of Golden Lake, 1,132 to 1,141 feet; and at Golden Lake 

 post-office, in the east edge of the southwest quarter of section 2, 1,138 

 feet. An eighth of a mile north from the south end of this lake the action 

 of its waves has eroded the greater part of the beach ridge. The matenal 

 of the beach exposed by an excavation near the post-office is coarse gravel, 

 with very abundant pebbles up to 3 inches and occasionally 4 to 6 inches 

 in diameter. 



