BEACHES OF LAKE MAUMEE. 733 



Station on the Lake Sliove and Michigan Southern Railway, to N<n-th Linn- 

 dale. The second beach comes to Rocky River innnediately west of West 

 Park. Upon crossing the river it becomes a cut bank and curves around 

 nearly concentric with the upper beach to Big Creek at North Limidale, 

 crossing Lc^rain street about a half mile west of the i:)resent city limits of 

 Cleveland. 



Each of the beaches is strong from Black River to Rocky River. The 

 upper usually presents a cut bank 5 to 10 feet high, though in places assum- 

 ing the form of a gravel ridge. The second beach is commonly a gravel 

 ridge 50 to 100 yards wide and 5 to 10 feet high. The course of the electric 

 railway from Cleveland to Elyria is such as to give an excellent view of 

 each of these beaches from Rocky River nearly to Ridgeville. Tt then fol- 

 lows the Belmore beach to Elyria. 



From Big Creek at North Linndale eastward to Brighton there are 

 traces of both the Maumee beaches.^ The upper beach is ordinarily a wave- 

 cut bench with but little gravel. It leads through the southern part of 

 Brighton, passing near the tollgates on the Parma road and the "Town 

 line" road. The interval between Brighton and the Cuyahoga River is so 

 broken by ravines that the course of the upper lieach was not ascertained. 

 The second l^each, after crossing Big Creek about a mile east of North Linn- 

 dale, is developed for a mile or more as a gravelly ridge. It then becomes 

 a cut bank, and leads through the midst of Brighton. It leads southeastward 

 along an angling road to the Cuyahoga River bluff near the north edge of 

 Independence Townshijj. 



Upon passing to the east side of the Cuyahoga and ascending the bluff 

 along the "Warner road" a beach is found, at the top of the bluff on the 

 north side of a small eastern tributary, about one-fourth mile south of the 

 present limits of the city of Cleveland. The barometer indicates that it 

 has the altitude of the second Maumee beach. A gravel pit shows a depth 

 of 8 or 9 feet of fine gravel. From this point the lake shore passes nortli- 

 ward along the east side of Mill Creek' while the "Warner road" rises above 

 the level of the upper beach. This road comes down to lake level again at 

 its intersection with Turney avenue, just south of Mill Creek. The city 

 levels make the altitude 207 feet above city datum, or about 780 feet above 



^The first tracing of the Maumee beaches through the city of Cleveland was by Upham, whose 

 observations and map are presented in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, Vol. VII, 1896, 

 pp. 340-345, plate 15. The writer also followed them through the city as here indicated in 1899. 



