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the cone. As each wave came in, the water in the small lagoon 

 rose and fell. The outflowing current seemed to be the control 

 which shaped the inner curves of the cone. A little farther to the 

 west the same waves were increasing the size, rounding the ends, 

 and otherwise modifying the two larger cusplets (Fig. ii), which. 



Fig. II. — Two well developed cusplets in the foreground, the apex of the small 

 loop spit appears in the background. North side of Fish Point Foreland. 



judging from their initial forms, had evidently been built some 

 time before by a storm blowing from the west. 



7. Amherst bar. — Waves rolling into the bay through the 

 lower gap from Lake Ontario have built a long gravel bar off the 

 east end of Amherst Island. This bar runs nearly north from 

 the end of the island and is nearly two miles in length. Most 

 of it is submerged, but near the island a portion rises as a sharp 

 ridge several feet above water level. The eastern end of 

 Amherst Island is low, and the shore is rocky. Most of the 

 gravel forming the bar has been moved along the south shore of 



