M'CAULEYVILLE SHORES IN MANITOBA. 



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quarter of a mile to tlie east, iind tlirough the middfe of seetion 4 and the 

 west half of section 9, township 5. 



Three McCauleyville beach ridges are crossed by the Manitoba and 

 Northwestern Railway on the north side of sections 32 and 33, township 

 14, range 13, about 4, 45, and 5 miles southeast of Arden, the elevations 

 of their crests being respectively 1,039, 1,029, and 1,016 feet above the 

 sea. Each of these rises about fi feet above the surface on the east. They 

 continue as prominent gravel ridges north-northwestward through the west 

 half of township 15 and the southwest part of township IH, range 13, and 

 through the northeast part of township IG, the east half of township 17, 

 and the west half of township 18, range 14, to the vicinity of Phillips's 

 ranch. The relationship of the Campbell, McCauleyville, and lower beaches 

 near Arden and eastward is shown in fio-. 30. 



Fiti. 30. — Sectiou ou the .south side i>i" townships 15, rauges I'S autl 12, Maiiitob.a 

 zontal scale, 2i miles to an inch. 



I Arden and tJIadstoue. Hori 



In township 1,5, range 13, next east of Arden, the most western and 

 upper one of the McCauleyville beaches is called Lowdons Ridge, from 

 Thomas Lowdon, whose house, the first built on it, is in the middle of the 

 east edge of section 30. The middle beach appears to be twofold in sec- 

 tions 20 and 29, Joshua Ritchie's house being liuilt on one of its ridges and 

 the Rose schoolhouse, a (juarter of a mile farther east, on the othei-. About 

 three-quarters of a mile east of the Rose Ridge is the lower McCauleyville 

 beach, on which tlu; trail to Lake Dauphin runs northward through town- 

 ships 15 and IG. Lewis McGliie's house is built on the eastern slope of 

 this beach, in the northeast quarter of section 28, township 15. Lowdon's, 

 Ritchie's, and McGhie's wells, and others in this township on these beach 

 ridges, pass throiigh gravel and sand 5 to 15 feet and through till below to 



