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the cliffs become very low, and that behind the point they are not dis- 

 tinguishable. Back of Eondeau harbor, across the front of Harwich 

 township, the land slopes gradually down to lake level, and a growth of 

 reeds and sedges near the shores of the harbor obscures any traces of the 

 abandoned earlier shoreline of the lake. About one mile east of the west 

 town line, where the western flying spit that incloses the harbor leaves the 

 main shore, low sea-cliffs again appear. The form of the shore, as it is at 

 present, shows that probably in the early history of the present lake two 

 low flying spits must have been formed about 5 miles apart, one of them 

 with the free end pointing east, relatively small, the other with the free 



Figure 3. — Point aux Pines, Lake Erie 



3nd reaching out toward the south, relatively larger and more actively 

 iggrading. The former probably swung away from the old shoreline near 

 the point where Eondeau village now stands, and was built of waste 

 drought from the west ; the latter probably left the main shore at or near 

 where the east town line of Harwich reaches it. The supply of waste 

 from the northeast would be the larger, and it would be moved along the 

 shore to its place of deposition much faster than that from the west. 



At the present time the western spit is represented by a narrow bar 

 svhich joins the broad southern portion of Point aux Pines to the main- 



