Tlie Kezvccnaiium in Minnesota. — Elftman. 93 
1744 feet above the sea and 1142 feet above lake Superior. 
This is the highest point reached on the railroad. The High- 
land moraine has its most prominent development in the vicin- 
ity of this station and can be most easily studied along a dis- 
tance of fifteen miles by trails which start from Highland 
station. 
The moraine is seen in several places along the Cloquet 
river and from Highland it extends continuously in a north- 
easterly direction toT. 59 N., R. 8 W., where it unites with the 
Itasca moraine. With an average width of two miles it runs 
nearly parallel with the shore of lake Superior at a distance 
of ten to fifteen miles north of it. Its maximum width is 
five miles. 
Itasca Moraine. On the Duluth and Iron Range rail- 
road this moraine occurs as a low belt of hilly drift from three 
to five miles northwest of the Saint Louis river. From the 
railroad the moraine continues in a northeasterly direction to 
the north of the source of the Saint Louis river in T. 59N.,R. 
1 1 W. Its course then becomes somewhat variable but lies 
in a general easterly direction following approximately the 
town line between townships 59 and 60 north to its junction 
with the Highland moraine in T. 59 N,, R. 8 W. 
East of the union of these moraines a single prominent 
moraine continues in a northeasterly direction to the Pigeon 
river, diminishing in size toward the east until it disappears 
in the province of Ontario. This belt is well defined around 
lake Harriet ,* T. 60 N., R 6 W.; around the lakes at the head 
of the Poplar river in T. 61 N., R.3W.; from the Cascade 
river in the southeastern part of T. 62 N., R. 2 W., to Devil 
Track lake, which lies in the midst of the moraine; in the 
southern part of T. 62 N., R. i E., and crossing the Pigeon 
river in sections 20 and 21, T. 64 N.. R. 4 E. Tht- mo- 
raine is characterized by a range of prominent hills 50 to 200 
feet high extending its entire length. 
Mesabi Moraine. West of range 1 1 west Mr. Upham 
describes this moraine as follows: "Along the Mesabi range 
east to the Embarras lakes northeast of Biwabik this moraine 
is merged with the Itasca moraine. At Mesaba station, on the 
*H. V. Winchell, 17th Ann. Report, Minn. Geol. and Nat. Hist. 
Survey, p. 102. 
