M'CAULEYVILLE SHORES IN NOIiTH DAKOTA. 



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the north were 990 to 995 feet. In tlie sonthwest ])avt of Strabane, jjassing 

 about a raih> east of Inkster (fig-. 2(1), its elevation is mostly 995 to 998 

 feet, rising- 5 to 8 feet above the depression, a sixth of a mile wide, in the 

 surface of till on its west or landward side, while its lakeward slope falls 

 10 to 15 feet. 



Fia. 20 — Protile across beaches at lakster, N. DaU., ami westward. Horizoutal scale, 2J miles to an inch. 



One and a half miles north of Inkster the upper McCauleyville beach 

 is crossed by the Langdon Branch of the Great Northern Railway close 

 south of its bridge over the Forest River. Its crest here is 99G feet above 

 the sea, with descents of 8 feet eastward and 5 feet westward. Thence it 

 runs close along the west side of the railway for a distance of about 8 

 miles, passing an eighth of a mile west of Conway station. Onward for 



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i beaches at Park Kiver. N. Dak,, and westward. Horizontal s 



, 2i miles to au inch. 



the next 8 miles to Park River (tig. 27), the railway is built on the top of the 

 beach ridge, which has an elevation of 99G to 998 feet. Thence along 

 the distance of about 25 miles to the Pembina delta, this shore, probably 

 marked throughout by a deposit of gravel and sand, lies about a half mile 

 east of the Campbell escarpment. 



