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tide. It appear.s, therefore, to be the upper beach. The lake extended no 

 farther up Mill Creek than this road, for the creek here comes out of high 

 country into the old lake plain. From Mill Creek the old shore passes 

 northward near the line of the Cleveland and Pittsburg- Railroad to New- 

 burg- station, where its altitude is 212 feet above city datum, or about 785 

 feet above tide. It continues north near the rolling mills and crosses Union 

 street where Patton street leads north. The top of the bank there is 210 

 feet above city datura. The upper beach seems to be represented still 

 farther north by sand deposits near the corner of South Woodland and 

 Woodland Hills avenues, as the altitude there is 208 feet above city datum. 

 Farther north, in the vicinity of the Grarfield monument, there is a steep 

 bank extending from near the level of the second beach up to a level above 

 the upper beach. The sandy deposits along the base of this bank appar- 

 entl}- belong to the second beach. The upper beach is much weaker from 

 the terminus of the Cleveland moraine at North Linndale eastward through 

 the city of Cleveland than it is to the west, its strength being less than that 

 of the second beach. This chang-e in strength seems attributable to the 

 longer time in which the lake held this level in the part of the shore west 

 of the tenniims of the moraine. 



From Cleveland eastward the presence of the upper beach is rather 

 uncertain. There are indications of the continuation of Lake Mavimee as 

 far east as the vicinity of Girai'd, Pa., and the barometric detenninations 

 suggest a double shore for a part of the distance, with levels differing about 

 as in the region to the west. But in the absence of topographic sheets or 

 accurate levels some uncertainty is felt concerning the presence of the 

 upper beach east of the vicinity of Cleveland. Possibly it extends no 

 farther east than the terminus of the Euclid moraine, 10 miles east of 

 Cleveland. 



Before continuing tlie description of the Maumee beaches to tlie east 

 of Cleveland attention should be called to a prominent terrace in the east 

 part of Cleveland, on which the Garfield monument stands, and which has 

 been referred to by Newberr}' as a lake terrace.' This prominent terrace, 

 which stands about 250 feet above Lake Erie,^ or nearlv 40 feet above the 



'Geology of Ohio, Vol. I, 1873, pp. 181-183; Vol. II, 1874, pp. 59-60. 



-It is reported in the Geology of Ohio to be 210 to 220 feet above the lake, but the city levels 

 show its altitude south of the Garfield monument, at the intersection of Mayfield road with Kent road, 

 to be 247 feet above Cleveland city datum, which is near the mean level of Lake Erie. 



