NE-SAW-JE-WON 

 CONTENTS 



Page 



Sketch of the Story 9 



Setting for the Ice-Age Drama — The Rock Formations and 



Pre-Glacial History of the Great Lakes Region 11 



The Glacial Period and its Records 20 



The Records Made by Rivers and Lakes 28 



Lake Maumee — the First of the Glacial Lakes 33 



Early Lake Chicago; Lake Jean Nicolet 34 



The Second Stage of Lake Maumee 37 



The Third Stage of Lake Maumee 38 



Lake Saginaw 39 



Lake Chicago 41 



Lake Arkona 41 



Expanding Lake Chicago 43 



Restored Lake Saginaw; Lake Newberry 43 



Lake Whittlesey 44 



Lake Wayne 45 



Early Lakes of the Superior Basin 46 



Lake Warren 47 



Lake Duluth 47 



Lake Elkton 49 



Early Lake Algonquin; Lake Tonawanda 53 



Niagara River and the Birth of the Falls; Beginning of 



Independent Lake Erie 5 5 



The Second Stage of Lake Algonquin; Lake Iroquois; 



Lake Erie 57 



Crustal Movements of the Earth 59 



More Work of Niagara River 62 



The Records of Algonquin Time 63 



The Nipissing Great Lakes 69 



The Modern Great Lakes 78 



The Story Unfinished 81 



