458 THE GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ. 



40 rods or less from west to east it descends about 10 feet, from 905 to 

 895 feet above the sea, approximately. 



The Emerado beach crosses the interuational boundary about 1 J miles 

 east of the west line of range 3, Manitoba, passing thence northwestward. 

 In townships 1 and 2, range 4, the Mennonite villages of Rheinland, Neuen- 

 burg, and Rosenthal ai-e partly built on it. At the windmill in Rheinland, 

 and thence along its course as seen for a half mile or more to the south- 

 southeast and north-northwest, this shore is marked by an ascent of 3 to 6 

 feet in as many rods from east to west; and from its crest, about 905 feet 

 above the sea, the surface extends nearly level westward. The beach 

 consists of loamy sand, while the adjoining land is tine lacustrine silt or 

 clay. On the Canadian Pacific Railway this beach is raised a few feet 

 above the general slope of the Assiniboine delta, passing in a west-north- 

 west course 2 miles east and 1 mile north of Bagot. The Manitoba and 

 Noi-thwestern Railway crosses it 5 miles west of Gladstone, where it is a 

 ridge about 30 rods wide, wind-blown in hollows 1 to 2 feet below the 

 crest, which is 927 to 929 feet above the sea, with descent of 5 feet from it 

 to the west and 12 to 15 feet to the east. A lower and less conspicuous 

 beach ridge, also Ijelonging to this stage, dies three-fourths of a mile farther 

 east, with its crest at 916 feet. The Emerado beach continues north 

 through the east part of townships 15 to 19, range 12, and through the 

 center of township 20, to the east side of Lake Mary. 



Two Emerado stages are again noted by Mr. Tyrrell, according to my 

 correlation, at the heights of 1,015 and 995 feet above the sea, as shown 

 by beaches on Kettle Hill, about 150 miles north of Gladstone. The upper 

 beach has an ascent of 95 feet in this distance, and the lower, 85 feet, 

 approximately. 



The lower of these shores, which is the more strongly marked on 

 Kettle Hill, is probably also shown by a beach ridge mentioned by Tyrrell 

 near the Pine River, some 40 miles farther south, at a height of 9G0 feet 

 above the sea, as determined by the original location of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway. 



