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Frank Carney 
The shorelines of only three of these lake stages have been 
given detailed study on the Bellevue quadrangle. When the 
field work herein described was undertaken, about four years 
ago, the writer was not acquainted with any beaches, in northern 
Ohio, below the Warren; these lower beaches are nowhere sug- 
gested by the contours of the Bellevue sheet ; in recent summers, 
however, he has found evidence of these lower beaches on sheets 
farther west, and he anticipates mapping them later on this 
quadrangle. There remains also some further work to be done 
on the Arkona, the significance of which was not fully appre- 
ciated in the season of 1909. 
Lake Maumee Shokelines 
The Upper Maumee shoreline. Commencing on the eastern side 
of the sheet, the Upper Maumee beach is found along the first 
north-south highway near the southeast corner. Megginson 
Creek, the course of which has been influenced by the direction 
of the beach, cuts through this shore ridge just south of its turn 
to the west. Within the next mile and a half westward there 
are some interesting irregularities in this shoreline, in consequence 
of the influence of west winds. The details can be better under- 
stood by starting at a point directly south of Bellevue, where 
the highway turns northward along the shore of a small pond 
in section 3 of Lyme Tp. Here the beach has a mild develop- 
ment, but as we follow it to the east by the road, the ridge swinging 
back and forth across the highway, it grows stouter, and after 
crossing the Lake Shore Railway the beach shows a strong devel- 
opment. A cusp extends northward about a quarter of a mile 
along the highway to Strongs Ridge. The road eastward from 
this cusp follows the crest of the beach for a little more than a 
mile to a point where the ridge bears north from the highway; 
a short distance east, the ridge swings back across the road and 
proceeds southward as already described. 
Returning to the cusp on the Strongs Ridge road, we find a 
spit which grew eastward, developing a northward trend for a 
short distance and later veering to the south in accord with the 
depth of the water. About half of a mile east of the western 
end of this spit, and south of it, a barrier commenced to form 
and grew eastward for nearly a mile, where both the spit and the- 
