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Frank Carney 
passes along a north-south ridge of gravel and sand. Reaching 
eastward from the termini of this ridge are compound spits that 
represent the work of west winds. This bar and its appended 
spits with their like orientation indicate a shallow place in the 
water occasioned probably by a ridge of glacial drift. Smooth- 
surfaced till, rather stony in texture, is found in the fields east and 
west of this ridge. Wells sunk in the ridge also penetrate drift, 
but throughout its whole extent the ridge is covered with gravel 
from 5 to 14 feet in thickness. The spits that have grown from 
the ends of this ridge present several interesting features, especi- 
ally in their constant trend to the east, in their gradual variation 
in texture from coarser gravels to fine sand eastward, and in the 
lagoons formed by the development of secondary spits from the 
windward side of the angle made by the main bar and the spit 
already developed. 
A short one-half mile north-east of Goldwood is a cusp fringed 
by a barrier. The cusp is about 50 rods long; between it and the 
barrier is a lagoon. 
Eastward towards the river, just before crossing the road which 
leads north to Rockport, is a short barrier with a lagoon in its 
rear. From the intersection of the Rockport road with the main 
shore, another ridge extends north-eastward; this, throughout 
nearly the whole of its one-half mile length, shows a strong devel- 
opment, in places 4 to 6 rods wide on top, and having a sharp 
back-slope. 
Continuing eastward along this lower level of the Maumee 
Lake, we find on the opposite side of the river, west and north of 
the Rockport race track, a short slope due to wave work on the 
shales thus forming a cliff. For some distance this shore line is 
indistinct, but reappears about one-half mile northeast of Munn 
road, in a strongly developed gravel ridge which swings due east 
after crossing Warren road. It shortly blends into a low ridge 
of clay. The interpretation of this clay ridge was puzzling for 
some time; it is plainly not of glacial origin, and is so free from 
gravel or other normal wave-worn products that a shore line gene- 
sis did not suggest itself. In this vicinity, the Cleveland shale 
bears scarcely a veneer of glacial deposits. Wave action in con- 
sequence has attacked the shale, and because of the very low slope 
of the lake basin, cliff cutting did not take place. The shale 
was ground off by the waves and piled in a low ridge, so slowly 
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