BEACHES OF LAKE MAUMEE. 719 



northeastward tlirougli the north part of the village, and which furnished 

 the site for the Fairfield geodetic station. It is 100 yards or more in widtli 

 and stands in places K") to 15 feet above the plain on its inner border. The 

 second beach lies within one-foin-th of a mile south of it and leads through 

 the south part of Fairfield. It is traceable beyond the southwest terminus 

 of the upper ridge. Both ridges are developed for a short distance from 

 Fairfield along the inner border of the Defiance moraine, which there 

 runs nearly west to east. About 2 miles east of Fairfield the Defiance 

 moraine swings abruptly to the north and becomes broken up into knolls 

 and sloughs which are wave worn only at a few exposed points. The 

 second beach, however, lies near the border between the moraine and the 

 plain and is better developed. 



The upper beach seems to be definite at but few points in the next 15 

 miles to the north, though more or less smoothing of the surface of knolls 

 and slight terracing may be traced all along the inner slope of the Defiance 

 moraine. The second beach is much better defined, and lies near the 

 border between the moraine and the plain. 



In northeastern Lenawee County, between Ridgeway and Macon, two 

 ridges appear above the Belmore which seem to differ about 15 feet in 

 altitude. The lower is about 35 feet and the higher 50 feet, by aneroid, 

 above the Belmore beach at Ridgewa}'. The lower ridge is rather weak, 

 but the higher one is strong and is maintained distinctly for a distance of 

 fully 3 miles. It contains a sandy gravel and stands 5 to 10 feet above 

 border tracts. On the west side there is a swamp, covering much of sections 

 18 and 19, Macon Township, and extending back to the border of the 

 moraine. This, in all probability, was covered by lake water, the ridge in 

 that case being at the place where the water became so shallow as to cause 

 the waves to break. This ridge terminates near the bluff' of a small stream 

 about a half mile southeast of Macon. From the north end of the swamp, 

 near Macon, the beach continues northward, along the border of the 

 Defiance moraine, into Washtenaw County, being largely a cut bank, though 

 gravelly ridges appear where small streams led down from the moraine to 

 the lake plain. 



The beach turns eastward in section 22, Saline Township, Washtenaw 

 County, and passes through the central part of section 23 and north part of 

 section 24, to Saline River, in the south part of section 13, being much of 



