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at any place extend out into wide reaches of sand flats for the 

 water off shore deepens more rapidly than that adjacent to the 

 terminal portion of Cedar Point. Away from the lake the slope 

 is quite gradual and the distance from crest to marsh is between 

 eleven and sixteen rods throughout a great part of the length. 

 In the vicinity of the west line of Huron Township and the mouth 

 of the Black Channel the breadth is twenty-four rods or more. 

 Quite near Rye Beach the breadth in the fall of 1904 was only 

 2-4 rods and most of the way for the first mile between three and 

 six rods. In a number of places the lake has washed the sand 

 over onto the marsh making little projections two or three rods 

 long, so that the shore of the marsh has not an even outline like 

 that of the lake. Some of these were made in 1904 and others 

 apparently within a year or two before. 



Composition of the Bar. 



The visible material of the bar like that of the remainder of 

 Cedar Point is largely sand, consisting of quartz, magnetite and 

 garnet, but unlike the remaindr it has throughout its whole 

 length gravel at the surface. On the bare beach the gravel is 

 abundant and many of the pebbles are as large as hens' eggs, the 

 quantity and to some extent the size increasing as one goes 

 toward Huron, the direction from which they have come. They 

 consist largely of quartzite and other metamorphic rocks derived 

 presumably from boulders in the clay between Rye Beach and 

 Huron. Limestone is scarce and not from any beds in the 

 vicinity. Shale fragments flat, angular and dark are scattered 

 over the beach or strewn thickly upon the sand more or less 

 apart from the hard pebbles. They too increase in abundance 

 as one approaches Dr. Esch's place where a bed of Ohio shale 

 outcrops, showing many spherical calcareous concretions three 

 ieet in diameter, some of them with tops cut off by the glacier 

 and still bearing the scratches. 



Near Rye Beach fragments of brick of various sizes, rounded 

 like the other pebbles, attract attention by their red color. 

 These are probably from a brick house belonging to Jabez 

 Wright, grandfather of Mrs. Esch, and a well known surveyor 

 three quarters of a century ago. The house stood north of the 

 present shore and south of a road, on the north side of which was 

 an orchard. The lake took the orchard, the road, the house, 

 and finally the man, who after a dark night was found dead at 

 the base of a high bank where the lake had encroached upon the 

 new road. 



A list of the things washed ashore or drifted along the 

 Cedar Point beach would fill pages. Among the more common 



