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In his guide book published in 1901 Prof. I. P. Bishop 

 shows a photograph in which the inclined beds are seen 

 to bend southward at their base into a nearly horizontal 

 position. 



A large amount of this gravel has already been removed, 

 but it is exposed in the bank of the river for fully half a 

 mile north, gradually thinning out in that direction. A 

 smaller but precisely similar deposit with coarse southward 

 dipping beds is exposed just opposite on the west side of 

 the river. Gravels of the same coarse character extend 

 southeast from the main street of the village to the Pres- 

 byterian church and the cemetery east of it. 



Section of Cataract Gravel bar ar Lewiston, looking east. The gravels are largely 

 coarse and the beds pitch to the south or southeast to a depth of 30 to 35 feet. 



These gravels have generally been described as a 

 part of the Iroquois beach formation. This beach extends 

 through the village to the bank of the river at the gravel 

 pit as a well formed spit, but here its composition and 

 arrangement are of a somewhat different character. 

 At", the pit one sees that the highly inclined beds 



