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over this locality entirely through the agency of the ice 

 sheet. 



The Maumee ice lobe, taking a southwesterly course, 

 advanced from the head of the Lake Erie basin until its front 

 lay upon the southeastern counties of Michigan and the north- 

 eastern counties of Indiana, its southern border resting upon 

 the northern counties of Ohio. The border of the Maumee 

 lobe entered Indiana at the northeast corner of Elkhart County, 

 took a westerly course through the northern part of Elkhart 

 and St. Joseph Counties to a point five miles west of South Bend, 

 where it began to angle to the south through the western part 

 of the county, continuing along the western border of Marshall 

 and Fulton counties, and en to the Wabash at Logansport. 

 The withdrawal of the ice sheet from this line and the deposit- 

 ing of its earthy and stony contents, marks the age of the lofty 

 range of hills lying south of South Bend and Mishawaka. The 

 Michigan lobe filled its basin and extended east from thirty to 

 forty miles beyond the present shore line of the lake, where it 

 curved southwest around the southeast corner of the lake. It 

 overlapped the northwest corner of St. Joseph County and 

 approached almost to our city limits. The highlands along the 

 north bank of the Kankakee valley, Portage Prairie and the 

 uplands west of Niles, mark the eastern or southeastern border 

 of the Michigan ice lobe, and also came into existence at that 

 time. The Saginaw glacier advanced from the Huron basin 

 through Saginaw bay, pushed south between the Michigan and 

 Maumee glaciers, and reached a point one mile northeast of 

 South Bend, where it terminated, its moraine commencing 

 about one mile east of Notre Dame and a little soulh, forming 

 the range of hills which commence at that point and extend in 

 a general northeasterly direction, passing near Dowagiac, 

 Decatur and Lawton, Mich., terminating west and north of 

 Saginaw bay; this range of hills being the western and part of 

 the southern terminal moraine of the Saginaw glacier, its east- 

 ern arm and part of its southern having been eroded and 

 washed away by the great Kankakee river. 



From the above outline of the glacial borders, it will be 



