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3, range 6, and iu section 28 comes to the steep escarpment of Pembina 

 Mountain, with which it coincides along the next 30 miles north-northwest. 

 The elevation of this beach shows that it is the continuation of the highest 

 in the series of Herman beaches in Minnesota and North Dakota. 



About a (juarter of a mile east of the foregoing is a parallel beach 15 

 to 20 feet lower, the second in the Herman series. Newton Lane's house, 

 next east of Mr. Oakley's, is built on its crest, 1,237 feet above the sea. It 

 there has a descent of 15 feet or more within an eighth of a mile to the 

 east; but on the west the descent is only 1 or 2 feet or in part wanting, and 

 a nearly level surface of sand and gravel reaches west to the upper beach. 

 In section 10, township 3, range 6, at the road from ^Morden t(» Thovuhill, 

 this second Herman beach has a height of 1,241 feet, and another Ijeacli at 

 1,247 feet lies between this and the highest, indicating similar conditions 

 in the fall of the lake level as on the northwest side of Maj)le Lake, in 

 Minnesota, where siu'li an intervening beach also occurs. 



Three small parallel beach ridges referable to the third stage in the 

 Herman series are crossed in the west part of section 24, townsliij) 2, range 

 6, by the road leading northwest from Mountain City. The elevation of 

 their crests is 1,198, 1,202, and 1,205 feet. Two miles farther north, near 

 the center of section 35, in the same township, William Miller's liuuse is 

 built on the highest of these, at an elevation of about 1,210 feet. His well, 

 16 feet deep, is gravel and sand to the depth of 12 feet, with till below. 

 Noi'thward these beaches are traceable through sections 2, 11, 15, and the 

 south part of section 22, township 3, range 6, to Bradshaws Creek, beyond 

 which they pass, with the other Herman and Norcross beaches, along the 

 Pembina Mountain escarpment. 



The fourth Herman beach passes through Mountain City, in section 

 24, township 2, range 6, the post-office and the south end of the principal 

 street being on its crest, at 1,191 to 1,192 feet. Twenty-five rods farther 

 east, at the schoolhouse, is a less conspicuous parallel beach, at 1,183 to 

 1,184 feet. Both are terrace-like in form, having a descent (jf 3 to 5 feet 

 or more on the east, but only 1 to 2 feet or none on the west. The contin- 

 uation of this shore was also observed, like the preceding, tlu'ough a 

 distance of 6 miles northward. 



