728 GLACIAL FORMATIONS OF ERIE AND OHIO BASINS. 



south to the .southern ridge. The northern ridge seems to die out near the 

 hne of Tully and Union townships, but the southern is well defined from 

 near Com'-oy to Van Wert, and is followed by tlie Fort Wayne and Van 

 Wert road. The southern ridge from the State line to Van Wert is seldom 

 less than 50 yards and in places is 150 yards in width. It stands 5 to 10 

 feet or more above bordering plains and in places is sandy. The northern 

 ridge is only 30 to 50 yards wide and is A^ery gravelly. 



At Van Wert the beach is only about 5 feet high and 30 yards in 

 average width, being below its usual strength. The writer was in the city 

 in 1891 when pipes for waterworks were being laid, and found that the 

 beach carries a clayey gravel at the surface, beneath which, at a depth of 

 "2 or 3 feet, clear gravel and sand set in. There are frequent and aljrupt 

 changes from sand to gravel and the beds show plainly wave action from 

 the north. 



About 2 miles east from Van Wert the beach becomes exceptionally 

 strong and continues so for 5 miles in curving from a nortli of east to a 

 south of east course. It rises 6 to 10 feet above the plain north of it and 

 is largely a cut bank. At Dog Creek and also at Little Auglaize River 

 gravelly material brought in by the streams has been worked u})on by the 

 waves and given a regular front on the lake ward side, standing about 10 

 feet above the lake bottom. 



On the borders of Dog Creek Valley two beach ridges appear, which 

 are separated by a space scarcely a half mile wide and which become 

 united both to the east and west from the creek valley. They differ but 

 little in altitude, though the south one appears to be a few feet the higher. 

 From Little Auglaize River eastward, toward Delphos, there are two distinct 

 beach lines, each of which is weak. The northern, which is the m(>re 

 continuous, is followed hj the Van Wert and Delphos road; the southeiii 

 leads southeastward from the Little Auglaize River, along an angding road 

 2 miles to the southwestern part of section 26, Washington Township, 

 where it dies out in a plain; but east of this point two small ridges were 

 noted, one of which crosses the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago 

 Railroad about a mile west of the canal, while the other lies south of it 

 in section 26. 



In the vicinity of Delphos the shore is not well defined, and Jen- 

 nings Creek does not carry such a conspicuous delta as appears on Little 

 Auglaize River and Dog Creek. 



