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the soiitli bluff rising- f,, flie Hat belt of the Golden Valley, 1,191 to 1,209 

 feet, ascending- westward; of the north bluff, 1,189 to 1,205 feet. 



Golden Valley, on the north line of section 5, Golden, 1,195 to 1,205 

 feet; 2 miles farther north, on the north line of section 29, Lampton, 1,198 

 to 1,208 feet. In this northern part of the valley limited ti-acts of its flat 

 area are strewn with abundant bowlders up to 2 feet, and less frequently 3 

 or 4 feet, in diameter. They are probably where swells of till rose nearly 

 to the surface of the water in this strait of Lake Agassiz, so that its fine 

 portions were swept away by waves and currents, to be deposited elsewhere 

 in the valley as clayey silt, leaving the masses of rock which could uot be 

 thus removed. Api)roacliing the Middle Branch of Park River, the surface 

 of the Golden Valley continues very smooth and flat, but it ceases to have 

 a continuous ascent from east to west, some portions along the center being- 

 depressed a few feet. Such a shallow hollow holds a slough about a mile 

 long- from south to north and a half mile wide in its broadest part, at 1,193 

 feet, extending from the north edge of section 20 through the west part of 

 section 17, Lampton, in which a small area of water remains throughout 

 the year. On each side of this slough, and for miles south and north, this 

 valley is a great hay meadow. 



The west border of the Golden Valley was the most western shore of 

 Lake Agassiz in its highest stage, but it is only very scantily marked b}' 

 deposits of beach gravel and sand, because of its sheltered position on the 

 western and leeward side of this naiTOw strait. From the middle of section 

 20, Vernon, this shore-line extends in a quite direct coui'se a few degrees 

 west of north 11 miles tlu-ough the west part of sections 17, 8, and 5, in 

 this township, sections 32, 29, 20, 17, 8, and 5, Golden, and the east edge 

 of sections 31 and 30, Lampton. For the next 3 miles, in the east edge of 

 sections 19, 18, and 7, Lampton, it runs nearly due north. Thence it 

 turns to a northwesterly course through section 6 of this township, and 

 through section 31, Gardar. In this vicinity the Golden Valley terminates. 



Bushes and trees clothe the slope on the west side of the Golden 

 Valley along its northern part, extending to the south line of Lampton; 

 but this ascent farther south, also the entu-e extent of the Golden Valley, 



