point soiitliwestward, quite to Terrace Park, the banks are mostly 

 abrupt, and vary from 15 to 30 feet in height above the lake. A 

 part of the beach at Arnold's Park is flat and sandy, but most 

 of the shore, especially from Pillsbury's Point to Terrace Park, 

 is quite bowldery. The beach at Terrace Park is flat and sandy, 

 and gradually passes into the upland prairie to the south. Both 

 shores leading to Pocahontas Point are bowldery with abrupt 

 banks, a low wooded ridge extending almost to the point. "West 

 of Pocahontas Point the lake connects, during high water, with a 

 long slough or draw which extends southward.- It is shallow, 

 usually crowded vdth plants, and a narrow fringe of trees has 

 developed in the shelter of its more abrupt eastern banks. The 

 beach on the west side of Emerson's Bay is sandy "\\dth occasional 

 bowlder-covered sections where higher banks appear. The forest 

 fringe is very^ narrow and interrupted. One of the most inter- 

 esting sections of this territory lies between Emerson's and Mil- 

 ler's bays. It consists of a series of low, well-wooded ridges sep- 

 arated by treeless swamps and sloughs. It is cut off from the 

 prairie upland to the west by a great swamp, extending from 

 bay to bay, which narrows southward and is there bordered by 

 bur oak groves on the more abrupt sheltered slopes, which rise 

 15 to 25 feet above the lake. A few small groves are found in 

 similar situations on the west side of the swamp south of the sec- 

 tion line. Some of these groves, and a part of the swamp are 

 showTi in Plate VII, fig. 1. This swamp has been recently cut 

 by the Beck canal which connects the two bays, and also cuts the 

 swamp along the southern border of this large peninsula. 



Fine sandy beaches border the lake west of Bluff Point, on 

 both sides of Gull Point and around the Cove just south of Elm 

 Crest. The northern shores of the peninsula (shown in Plate II, 

 fig. 3), the greater part of the shore lying between Elm Crest and 

 Gull Point, and that in the immediate vicinity of Bluif Point and 

 the point west of it, are bordered by wooded higher banks or low 

 bluffs, with bowldery beaches. In the vicinity of the Cove these 

 banks are 15 to 20 feet high. Swamps everywhere border the 

 lower shores and penetrate far into the wooded uplands of the 

 peninsula. 



That part of the shore lying between the sandy beach imme- 

 diately north of the outlet of the canal and the Laboratory is 



2 Known as Green Slou?h. 



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