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The beach is interrupted for about one-fourth of a mile, and reappears 

 on the east side of the north-and-south Phelps road as a low bar south of 

 the house of Mr W. D. Burnett. For two miles the beach follows along 

 the east side of the highway ; the first mile as a cliff or gravel shelf, then 

 for one-half mile as a heavy ridge of gravel. At the four corners, by 

 number 2 school, the beach is a steep cliff, and so continues for another 

 half mile, until it swings west, crosses the road, and forms a strong ridge 

 by a reservoir. Here the ridge has been cut by erosion, but is continued 

 northward with great strength for a short distance, .when it becomes a 

 cliff on an eastern slope. A quarter of a mile east or lakeward of this 

 cliff is a heavjr ridge, possibly drumlin, surmounted by a gravel deposit 

 for a length of perhaps one-third mile, ending very abruptly at the north 

 end. The ridge and the cliff seem to be connected by a transverse bar. 



The beach-line passes around the north end of the western drumlin 

 ridge as a steep, eroded slope, with good cliff profile. On the west side 

 of the drumlin is a gravel shelf. A heavy bar crosses the valley, cut by 

 a stream, and has been excavated for gravel behind a barn on the east 

 side of the north-and-south road. The shoreline passes north and very 

 soon crosses the road and bends sharply around the north end of a nar- 

 row drumlin ridge, then less abruptly around the north end of another 

 drumlin into a valley which interrupts the shore features for one-half 

 mile. West of a brook is a gravel plateau, apparently somewhat under 

 the water plane, and holding a gravel pit. Close to the north-and-south 

 road, upon the east side, is a fine gravel bar supporting the house of Mi- 

 Edwin Ferguson. This lies opposite the junction of a highway leading 

 west. Another ridge occurs at the road junction upon the west side of 

 the road. 



Here the beach is interrupted by the narrow gorge of Flint creek. The 

 shoreline phenomena have not been closely searched upon the west side 

 of the ravine. A poorly developed gravel bar was seen at the four cor- 

 ners by a school-house, and a strong gravel ridge occurs one-half mile 

 west, in the southwest angle of four corners. 



One-fourth mile further west is a high drumlin ridge, which is deeply 

 cut by gullies down to the level of the beach-line. The latter passes 

 about the northern end of the high ridge upon which is located the 

 Clifton Springs reservoir. Upon the west side of the ridge and east of 

 the road is a stretch of gravel which marks the water-level. The aver- 

 age of two nearly concurrent aneroid observations, made at different 

 times by connecting with the Lehigh Valley railroad one mile north, 

 gave an altitude of 711 feet. 



Across the road and westward is low, swampy ground and only faint 

 evidence of water-action is found, but one-half mile west occurs a good 



