CUSP A TE FORELANDS AT BAY OF OUINTE 



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rise only about a foot above present water level. They are nearly 

 parallel, and between them we find two long, narrow ponds. The 

 fourth beach, the largest and highest of the series, extends nearly 

 the whole length of the spit. The next two are also of consider- 

 able height and breadth, and are best preserved near the outer 

 end. In the readjustment of the curves during the formation of 



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Fig. 6. — Sketch plan of Pleasant Point Foreland, May 23, 1903. 



the seventh or modern beach the waves have cut through the 

 sixth and fifth, and are now acting on the fourth near its shore 

 end. On the west side traces of only one ancient beach could 

 be found between the present modern beach and the triangular 

 lagoon. It is assumed, in the counting, that this is the correlative 

 of some one or more of the first six of the earlier beaches found 

 on the east side. Both the beaches on the west side cut across 

 the ends of the first three of the earlier beaches, and the modern 

 one cuts across the ends of the other three as well. The fourth 

 beach on the east, the highest and broadest of the series, rises 



