BEACHES OF LAKE MAUMEE. 727 



the southeast edge of New Haveu, and for "2 miles east there is a cut bank 

 to mark the position of the shore. This bank is 10 feet or less in height, 

 gradually decreasing in strength eastward until it fades out. A bar known 

 as "Irish Ridge" sets in north of the point where this bank fades out and 

 leads eastward a distance of 3 miles, from near the center of section 10 to 

 the noi'thwest part of section 13, Jefferson Township. It stands about as 

 high as the ujjper beach, its western end, near the Nickel Plate Railroad, 

 being 779 feet, and it seems to have in a measure protected the shore back 

 of it from wave action. 



The beach reappears near a Catholic church about a mile east from 

 where the cut bank dies out. It consists of a low gravelly ridge, standing 

 only 3 to 5 feet above the bordering plain, and is only 30 to 40 3^ards in 

 width. Near Zulu it increases in strength and stands in places 6 to 10 feet 

 above the plain north of it. There is here a thin gravel coating on the top 

 of a cut bank. The beach runs south to Flat Rock Creek in section 36, 

 Jefferson Township, and there terminates abruptl5^ There seems to be no 

 trace of the shore for about 2 miles east of this creek. The surface is very 

 ■flat and there was probably so little depth of water at the lake border that 

 wave action was weak. 



The beach reappears east of East Flat Rock Creek, in the southeast 

 part of section 32, Jackson Township. From there to the State line of Ohio 

 and Indiana it consists mainly of a low cut bank 5 to 6 feet in height, 

 gravel deposits being meager. In the vicinit}' of the State line a series of 

 four nearly parallel, low, g-ravelly and sandy ridges are found which differ 

 but little in altitude, and were ]3robably formed in succession from south to 

 north at the highest lake stage, though the northern one may pertain to the 

 second beach. The northern ridge enters Ohio in the southwest corner 

 section of Paulding County; the southern enters Ohio 2 miles farther south, 

 near the line of sections 6 and 7, Tully Township, Van Wert County. The 

 two southern ridges seem to be only locall)^ doA^eloped, but the two northern 

 are quite persistent for several miles into Ohio. 



Of these two ridges the inner one is the weaker and is a few feet lower 

 (perhaps 10 feet) than the outer or southern one. The space between the 

 two ridges is a mile or less. The northern one is followed by tlie Fort 

 Wayne and Van Wert road from the State line to a point IJ miles north- 

 east of Convoy. The ridge there leads eastward, while the road turns 



