LEIPSIC AND BELMORE BEACHES IN CLEVELAND. 341 



southeasterly across the Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Saint Louis 

 railway (a mile northeast of Linndale station) to the valley of Big creek. 

 Beyond this creek, which was thought by Mr Leverett to mark the east 

 termination of the Leipsic beach, I discovered its continuation, defined 

 by a terrace cut in the till witli moderately sloping descent of 5 to 15 

 feet, accompanied in part of its course by a ridged gravel and sand de- 

 posit, the latter being observed a half mile south of Brooklyn post office 

 and continuously onward for three-fourths of a mile or more to the 

 southeast. The gravel beaches and eroded terraces of this shore, at their 

 crests, are 190 to 200 feet above lake Erie; and the level of the Western 

 Erie glacial lake, at the time of their formation, was approximately 185 

 feet above the lake, or 760 feet, nearly, above the sea. 



East of the Cuyahoga river, the Leipsic shore, marked by two little 

 sand and gravel ridges, nearly parallel and 25 to 50 rods apart, differing 

 about 10 feet in altitude, each raised 2 to 5 feet above the surface of till, 

 I have traced and mapped from the east side of the Brecksville road, 

 three-fourths of a mile south of the city limits, north \vard across Har- 

 vard avenue (between Reade and Bissell streets) to the Broadway School. 

 Next this shore is found marked by a single small beach ridge running 

 almost due north between Upton street and AVoodland Hills avenue, 

 being there distinctly observed for a half mile, from Union street to Harris 

 avenue, on which, close south of the southern branch of Kingsbury run 

 and 10 to 20 rods west of Niagara street, it has a typical beach ridge of 

 coarse wave-worn gravel, 1 to 2 feet above the surface of till on the east 

 and 5 feet above that on the west, the width of the ridge being 10 or 

 12 rods. This place is a mile north of the belt of very abundant boulders 

 on Marble, Cottage and Fayette streets, which represent one of the chief 

 lines of deposition, probably the most northern, of the Newburg moraine. 

 Farther northeastward, the Leipsic shore is doubtless traceable to the 

 moraine described and mapped by Leverett from Euclid eastward parallel 

 with the present lake Erie shore. 



The crests of the two Leipsic beach ridges east of the Cuyahoga valley, 

 in their north Avard course to Harvard street, are about 190 and 180 feet 

 above lake Erie, corresponding to old lake levels at 185 and 175 feet 

 nearly. The single beach farther north, as at Harris avenue, seems 

 probably the representative of the lower one farther south, and of the 

 time when the lake cut the lowest part of the conspicuous terrace on this 

 shore northwest of Big creek. 



BELMORE OR SHERIDAN BEACH OF LAKE WARREN. 



The earliest shore line formed in the basin of lake Erie after the water 

 level fell below the Wabash outlet was named by N. H. Winchell the 



