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Spencer — Deformation of Algonquin Beach, 



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Elevations referred, to sea'level. 



Fig. 1. — Map showing the Algonquin Beach about the eastern portion of Algon- 

 quin Lake. Other beaches are also shown. 



The following table gives the levelled elevations of salient 

 points along the Algonquin Beach, at or near the places men- 

 tioned : 



Feet above the Sea. 



Surface of Lake Huron 582 (U. S. Lake Survey.) 



Beach at one or two miles lakeward of 

 modern outlet of Lake Huron, calcu- 

 lated 562 (Spencer.) 



Grand Bend (of Au Sable River) 602 " 



Wilson's (14 miles northward, terrace 

 .at 608 feet, calculated) 618 " 



Eighteen Mile Creek (terrace 637 feet, 



calculated) _ ,._ 647 (Barometer.) 



Southampton (back of which a sand 



dune rises 13 feet higher) 714 (Spencer.) 



Thence the beach skirts Indian Penin- 

 sula, and at Owen Sound __ 749 



Clarksburg 773 



Collingwood, 4 miles west of._ 767 



Colwell 752 



Elmsvale 802 



Wyebridge, east of._. 842 



Orillia, about _ 800 (Barometer.) 



Thence the beach descends and swings 

 around Lake Simcoe and again rises 

 at Kirkfield _..... 875 (Spencer.) 



Burk's Falls (+ or -) (?)1171 (N. W. & N. Ry/ 



