BEACHES OF LAKE MAUMEE. 735 



highest shore of Lake Maumee, is better defined for several miles east from 

 Cleveland than any terraces at levels corresponding with either of the 

 shores of Lake Maumee, the width being from an eighth of a mile to nearly 

 a half mile. Tliis terrace is as flat as the bed of a stream, and is iisually 

 bordered on the southeast by an abrupt bank. It may have been formed 

 by a stream passing westward between the ice margin and the escarpment 

 before the ice sheet had withdrawn from the foot of the escarpment. It has 

 not, however, been examined with sufficient care to justify a positive 

 interpretation of such an origin. 



For some miles east from the east part of Cleveland the escarpment is 

 so abrupt that the Maumee shores are marked simply by narrow benches 

 cut in its face at the salient parts of the escarpment. About midway 

 between Lake View Cemetery and the post-office at East Cleveland a 

 bench was found at what appears b}' aneroid to be the level of the upper 

 Maumee beach. It is inuch narrcnver than the bench above it, just men- 

 tioned, that leads westward past the Garfield monument. A similar narrow 

 bench is found at about the same level south of East Cleveland. In each 

 place there are only scattered pebbles on the bench, resting directly on the 

 shale. Between East Cleveland and Euclid a narrow bench was found 

 along the face of the escarpment, which by aneroid appears to be at about 

 the level of the second Maumee beach. It caii'ies a small amount of sand 

 and gravel. East of Euclid there are slight developments of a bench 

 having apparently the level of the upper beach, for it stands 40 to 50 feet 

 above the Belmore beach. Whether it was formed by the lake is not 

 certain. 



Near the line of Cuyahog'a and Lake counties the escarpment loses its 

 boldness and drift deposits of considerable thickness set in. The Belmore 

 beach is well developed, but the Maumee shore is rather weak. A gravel 

 ridge was found, however, near the brow of the escarpment southeast of 

 Wickliffe, which seems to have the level of the second Mauiuee beach. 



From the Chag'rin River eastward nearly to Grand River the Belmore 

 beach is cut into the inner slope of the Euclid moraine, and in places has a 

 bank 20 to 40 feet high, l)ut the Maumee shore is ^•ery weak and fragmen- 

 tary, though the moraine rises high enough to catch it. 



East of Grand River from near Madison to the vicinity of Saybrook 

 a distinct beach is found above the Belmt^re, having apparently the level of 



