306 The American Geologist. May, 1895 
rounded. Its accumulated masses are great in magnitude and 
its deltas and terraces are of great extent. The notch at the 
back of its cut terraces is generally deep and the bluff above 
is often high and comparatively steep and fresh. Sometimes 
along steep shores of hard rock and along the face of partly 
submerged cliffs this beach appears to have no distinct repre- 
sentative. But such places do not extend beyond a few miles 
at most. At some of the best localities I will quote Prof. 
Lawson's description in full. I take his series by number as 
published in his report. 
Series 1 to 3. Duluth to Hardy's School House. Lower levels above 
present shore not reported. 
Series 4- Two Harhm's. The rail waj' station is on a broad plain 35 
feet above the lake. We shall see later that this is probably not the 
Nipissing beach. 
Series 5. Beaver Bay. Modern "well defined spit." Also "a bold 
head presents vertical cliffs over 100 feet high." 
Series 6. Baptism River. "Palisades." Vertical cliff for 30 feet with 
a low beach along its base. 
Series 7. Saw-teeth. "Cliff above the present shore" with gently slop- 
ing terrace from 84.5 feet above. 
Series 8. Carlton Peak. No record below 80 feet. 
Series 9 and 10. Poplar Bioer. A low wave-built terrace 6.9 feet. Cut 
terraces at 12.4 and 21.7 feet. Upper terrace 50 feet wide. 
Series 11. Coast east of Poplar River. "Steep sea-clift' rising 14.5 feet 
from the present shore." Terrace above 150 feet wide and 17.8 feet 
above the lake at its rear. 
Series 12. Good Harbor Bay. Sea-clift' 15 feet high overhangs the 
present shore. Shingly terrace above this 100 feet wide and 20 feet 
above the lake at its rear: another terrace 25 feet wide and 27.2 feet 
high at its rear. 
Series 13. Grand Marais. Crests of abandoned beach ridges at 0.1 
and 12. 1 feet and terraces at 17.5 and 29.1 feet. The upper terrace is 
260 feet wide. 
Series 14. Kimball's Creek. "From Grand Marais eastward a low ter- 
race, corresponding to * * * the 29.1 feet terrace at Grand Marais, 
may be observed for several miles along the coast as far as Cow-tongue 
point." Then at Kimball's Creek there is a flai terrace at 28.5 feet "and 
above it rises a steeply inclined sea-cliff." "Farther along the shore this 
terrace is again seen about a mile below Fish-hook point, and again be- 
low the mouth of Brule river." 
Series 15. Horseshoe Bay. Three heav}' boulder beach ridges at 11,9, 
17.6 and 38.6 feet. The front of the last one "is not a simple slope as is 
the case with the two lower beaches, but its profile shows a distinct 
step-like feature in its lower part such as may be sometimes seen in the 
clear water on the subaqueous slope of some of the living beachesof the 
