RIVER MEANDERS ON THE MIDDLE ROUGE 759 



relatively steep slope, as the lateral cutting of the stream has as yet 

 been very little. One of these bars shows in the foreground. They 

 are in general composed of coarse material (sand and gravel) , differing 

 in composition from the banks of the stream. 



The Rouge is so called from its color, which is owing to the sedi- 

 ment carried. The Middle Rouge, even though a small stream here, 

 carries a great amount of sediment. A large portion of this was 



Fig. 4. — Present stream in an inherited wider bed. 



dropped in the pond while the dam was intact, the deposits reaching 

 a depth of eight feet at the dam and extending back a distance of 

 nearly half a mile. 



The map accompanying the paper (Fig. 6) shows the meandering 

 course of the stream in the old floor of the pond and extends back far 

 enough to show all the meanders which have developed since the 

 withdrawal of the water as well as one (the first of the series), 

 which was developed earlier and has since simply been deepened. 



The map has been constructed with considerable care, the principal 



