CHAPTER XV. 

 THE GLACIAL LAKE WHITTLESEY. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



The name Lake Whittlesey was suggested by Taylor in 1897/ for the 

 lake wliich formed the Belmore beach of the Erie-Huron basin. He also 

 discovered the lake's outlet across the "thumb" of Michigan and named it 

 the Tyre-Ubly outlet.^ He has since shortened the name to Ubly outlet. 

 The Belmore beach was named and partially described by N. H. Winchell 

 in 1872/ but parts of it had been mapped many years earlier. Bela Hub- 

 bard had traced it for more than 60 miles in southeastern Michigan at the 

 time his report to Douglas Houghton was prepared in 1840/ and he men- 

 tioned its presence at Plymouth, York, and Ridgeway, Mich. A map in 

 the same report, drawn by S. W. Higgins, shows the position of the beach 

 in Wayne County, Mich. In a report published the following year,^ Hub- 

 bard called attention to the continuation of the mapping of this beach across 

 Macomb into St. Clair County. At a still earlier date Whittlesey made 

 reference to the lake ridges south of Lake Erie in an official report published 

 for the First Ohio Geological Survey,^ but it is not certain that he had 

 attempted to trace their courses at that time. A few years later he had 

 traced two or more of the beaches from Erie, Pa., westward jjast Cleveland 

 to the Vermilion River, and noted that from that point they bear farther 

 inland." This tracing seems to have included the Belmore beach. He 

 found difficulty in accounting for the beaches, inasmuch as they occur above 



1 Bull. Geol. Soc. America, Vol. VIII, 1897, p. 39. 



^Loc.cit, pp. 40-41. 



' Proc. Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. , Vol. XXI, 1872, pp. 177-179. 



* Third Ann. Rept. of Dr. Douglas Houghton, pp. 102-111. Published as house document No. 8, 

 Detroit, 1810. 



^ House document No. 27, pp. 120-122, Detroit, 1841. 



8 Second Ann. Rept. Geol. Surv. of Ohio, 1838, p. 55. 



' Notes upon the drift and alluvium of Ohio and the West: Am. Jour. Sci., 2d series, Vol. V, 1848, 

 pp. 205-217. On the natural terraces and ridges of the country bordering Lake Erie: Am. Jour. Sci., 

 2d series, Vol. X, 1850, pp. 31-39. On the fresh-water glacial drift of the Northwestern States: Smith- 

 sonian Contrib., Vol. XV, 1867, 32 pages. 



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