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movement as that recorded at San Jose Creek. If, on further in- 

 vestigation of the region, it be found that our failure to observe 

 strand lines between the 620 feet level and 800 feet be due to the 

 absence of such features, there would be some warrant for supposing 

 that the drop of the coast through this interval was more rapid than 

 that which preceded it. It may be of service to future observers 

 to state that no search was made for evidence of strand lines in this 

 interval, the 800 feet beacli having been discovered at the last stage 

 of our investigations, no time remaining for reexamination of the 

 field. The depression may possibly have been greater than that 

 indicated by the 800 feet beach, but we have as yet no evidence on 

 this point. 



Terraces of the Uplift. — Since the formation of this beach on 

 Huckleberry Hill there has been a progressive uplift of the coast 

 by stages, represented by wave-wrought and stream-cut terraces. 

 The highest of these terraces is one of those mentioned as observed 

 on the slopes of the ancient delta of the San Jose, at an altitude of 

 570 feet. Corresponding to this in elevation there is a very distinct 

 terrace, strewn with loose and cemented beach material, gravel and 

 bowlders, on the main coast road, near the point where the branch 

 road turns in westward to the new settlement called Carmel City. 

 The terrace is carved out of the Monterey shale, and the cemented 

 shore drift yet remains in place at an altitude of 565 feet. Corre- 

 sponding to the same horizon, also, are numerous Pholas borings on 

 the seventeen-mile pleasure drive, near the wind gap on the main 

 road, at an elevation of from 540 to 560 feet. From this strand 

 line down to the present sea-shore terraces of various degrees of 

 distinctness become numerous as we descend the slope. They are 

 mostly strewn with bowlders and pebbles, more or less cemented 

 together, and in several cases the adjoining rock surfaces show 

 mollusc borings. 



One of the most pronounced of these terraces is observable on 

 the main coast road descending to Carmelo from the wind gap. It 

 has an elevation of from 460 to 480 feet at its rear, and is mantled 

 with the usual thin covering of terrace formations, more or less 

 firmly cemented. Corresponding to this in elevation are the Pholas 

 borings in the Monterey shale at the wind gap between the canon 



