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south, East Avon, road and changes to the beautiful series of ridges and 

 hooks one mile south of East Avon (see figure 3). 



The East Avon beaches lie at the southeastern edge of the wave-swept 

 plain upon which East Avon is situated. The bars and hooks are from 

 10 to 20 rods wide at the base, 15 to 20 feet high, and of perfectly uniform 

 altitude. Where they disappear against the sides of the drumlins the 

 wave-cut cliffs are very evident. This system of curving ridges and 

 cliffs terminates at the north in a broad lobed spit formed at the north 

 end of a drumlin in the rear of the residence of Mr Cortez Landon. This 

 is upon the south side of the Avon-Lima road, about one-half mile east 

 of East Avon village. Mr Landon's house is placed upon the shelf cut 

 out of the drumlin by the waves. 



A line of instrumental levels was run from Avon station on the Erie 

 railway. Taking the top of the west rail of the Erie railroad at the Avon 

 highway as 583.3 feet, the height of the spit behind Mr Landon's house 

 was found to be 873 feet. 



Eastward upon the Lima road a short but clear beach is seen extend- 

 ing from the north end of a drumlin. The house of Mr A. G. Bristol 

 is located at the eastern end of the beach. In the adjacent field east- 

 ward, owned by Mr James Bristol, the beach is again found as a short, 

 broad, gravel bar, and shows still more clearly southeastward, crossing 

 the north-and-south highway, at which point an old abandoned house is 

 located upon the beach. Across the north-and-south hollow the shore- 

 line features are clearly seen upon the eastern slope. 



Passing northward along the shoreline it appears as a well marked 

 erosion cliff in a drumlin ridge, which at its north end, within about 

 one-fourth of a mile of the east and west Avon- Lima road, has a distinct 

 shelf cut by the waves and the debris built into a strong bar. This bar 

 is on land , of Mr Walter Sherman. It has a direction a little east of 

 north and strikes the Avon-Lima road at the junction of a road from the 

 north, about one-half mile west of the town line. The bar has been cut 

 by a small stream, but is otherwise continuous at the full height of the 

 beach. It is about 25 feet high on the landward slope. 



The shoreline runs along the western or lower side of the road which 

 leads north upon the west side of a huge drumlin, locally known as 

 " Huckleberry hill." The beach gradually diverges from the road, and 

 in about three-fourths of a mile it develops a strong bar which strikes 

 another road, branching westward from the first, exactly where the branch 

 road makes a right angle from westward to northw T ard. As an erosion 

 line the shore can be traced northward along this road for half a mile, 

 when it curves eastward, crossing the road, and cuts the north end of a 

 drumlin. Then as a heavy ridge, at least 15 rods wide at base and 25 



