GLACIAL WATERS IX THE LAKE ERIE BASIN 



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the station of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, 

 which is given as 787 feet. The beach altitude is taken as three 

 feet lower, or 784 feet. The conspicuous ridge east of the station, 

 lying between the two railroads, which suggests a bar in form, 

 is a morainal ridge and the west front of the Escarpment moraine. 

 The Whittlesey waters laved the moraine in all this section. 



West of the railroad station the Whittlesey beach swings over to 

 the highway, carrying State Line village, and is followed by the 



