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may account for them, as well as for the bowlders spread over those 

 places in the Black Swamp where there has been no apparent erosion. 

 A short distance north of Fairfield there is an opening in the road in a 

 ridge of gravel which runs south-west. Traveling east from Phillips's 

 Corners to Metamora, after passing over a flat of the Black Swamp kind, 

 the only indication of the Belmore Ridge that can be seen occurs a mile 

 and a half west of Metamora, running south-west. This ridge consists 

 of clay (hard-pan) outwardly, and rises about eight feet above the road, 

 which it crosses between sections 4 and 9, Amboy. The people regard 

 it the "same as that running north-east toward Detroit." No ridge is 

 seen at Metamora. Two ridges of lake sand occur at Ai, where they 

 seem to diverge. The most westerly runs about north and south in sec- 

 tion 4. The other runs more north-east, in section 3. These sandy ridges 

 accompany and cover the real Belmore Ridge. They continue to Delta, 

 the gravel of the Belmore Ridge being only occasionally visible. At 

 Delta there is a hard-pan ridge, cut by the railroad, showing about nine 

 feet. A short distance south of the railroad Mr. Spencer, in digging his 

 cellar, has found a hard-pan covering of twenty-three feet, but at Mr. John- 

 son's, half a mile further south, the ridge is of gravel. At numerous other 

 places between Delta and West Barre the contents of the ridge are found 

 to be gravel ; no lake sand seen south of Delta. The ridge maintains 

 its typical characters for several miles south of Delta. It is constant, 

 well marked, and always hard, a gentle slope toward the south-east, but 

 not always one in the opposite direction. At Mr. Spencer's, near Delta, 

 where the main ridge is one of hard-pan, there is a second, low ridge on 

 the inner side of the main ridge, consisting more especially of stones and 

 bowlders. The main ridge here seems to be the inner margin of the Blanch- 

 ard Ridge, this low one being the true Belmore Ridge. From West Barre to 

 Ridge ville the ridge is well defined. About half a mile south-west of Ridge- 

 ville it is less marked. On section 11, Adams, Defiance county, it becomes 

 more sandy, as at Ai, and north to Lenawee Junction, but not to so great 

 an extent ; the ridge can be easily traced. This ridge is generally less than 

 ten feet high above the adjoining level, and sometimes not more than four ; 

 but it is continuous and remarkably uniform. Streams only seem to dis- 

 turb its outline. Their channels are cut wide and far beyond the possible 

 effects of the present amount of water. From Ridgeville to the Maumee 

 (section 17, Richland) the ridge is well defined and has the usual fea- 

 tures. The sandy element mentioned half a mile west of Ridgeville has 

 disappeared. South of the Maumee there are more evidences of the inner 

 margin of the Blanchard Ridge. At Ayersville there is an irregular 

 accumulation of lake sand covering the inner margin of both the Blanch- 



