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Figure i. — Beach Phenomena east of Richville. 



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roads, and is probably indicated in a forest by a gravel pit at the road- 

 side. Passing northward, the shore- 

 line lies west of the highway, along 

 the western edge of a morainic area, 

 for over a mile, or as far as the junc- 

 tion of this road with the east-and- 

 west Richville-Batavia road. At 

 this road junction the house and 

 barns of Mr John Donovan stand 

 upon the beach, which, as a fine, 

 strong ridge, runs north-by-east for 

 half a mile, and changes to a cliff 

 about the northern edge of the 

 moraine, near the Batavia-Tona- 

 wanda branch of the New York 

 Central railroad (see figure 1). An- 

 other heavy ridge lies westward 

 (lakeward) of the former, with a 



direction northeast by southwest. The northern ends of the two riclges 

 nearly coalesce. North and east of the cliff, or north of the moraine, is 



a stretch of low ground which 

 was covered by an embayment 

 of the lake waters. Here the 

 beach is interrupted for about 

 a mile, but reappears due north 

 as a heavy spit thrown east- 

 ward from the south end of a 

 kame. Northward the shore- 

 line skirts the west side of the 

 kame and reappears at the 

 north side of the kame as a 

 very heavy ridge, which leads 

 north along the east side of the 

 north-and-south road; then, 

 as a cliff-line, the beach lies in 

 the road, a short space, then 

 crossing to west of the road it 

 skirts the west side of a kame- 

 moraine area and crosses an 

 east - and - west road ; thence 

 swinging to the northeast it 

 becomes a low, flat bar upon the very crest of the Corniferous escarp- 

 ment, a mile west of Indian Falls village (see figure 2). 



Figure 2.— Beach Phenomena southwest of Indian Falls. 



