110 The American Geologist. Aujrust, is96 
1,150 feet. P^ast of the road is Chippewa lake and other little 
ponds five or ten feet lower. North of the lake is a network of 
narrow, crooked, steep-sided, stony ridges with marshy hollows 
enclosed, probably glacial forms. Mr. McCollen's house is on a 
partially cleared hill to the east which rises to over 1,200 feet. 
The soil is a stony till with some sand and plenty of bowl- 
ders. No evidence of wave-wash or still-water sedimentation 
was seen above about 1,130 feet. A mile farther north near 
the cabins of two Frenchmen west of the road an old bluff 
was found at about the same hight facing over a swamp 
which borders Uuchesnay creek — probably another fragment 
of the Nelson or Algonquin beach. 
I'voiit Creek. Two efforts were made in 1893 to reach the 
hifj-hest beach at Trout creek, about 28 miles south-southeast 
of North Bay. Both failed on account of rain. This season 
another attempt -was made with better success. A thin snow 
covered the ground in the morning, but by noon had disap- 
peared. On the face of a steep hill about a mile east of the 
station the Algonquin beach was found in a cleared field fac- 
ing northwest over the valley. It appears here in the form of 
a series of lightly cut terraces or steps. Beginning in the 
woods below the field eight benches were distinguished at al- 
titudes of about 1,150, 1,165, 1,170, 1,175, 1,185, 1,195, 1,205 
and 1,215 feet above sea level. Some of them are low 
ridges with shallow depressions behind. Those at 1,175, 1,185 
and 1.195 are best developed, the last one the best of the 
three. The upper one has a low bluff of bowldery clay three 
to four feet high at its back in the northern part of the field, 
but fades away on the slope to the south. This bluff rises 
gently to a low knob at the north and passes into the woods. 
Near the north side of the field where it is most distinct the 
waves made a deeper cut, producing a slight indentation of 
the bluff line, like a small amphitheater. The tough qXhj of 
the slope is thickly massed with bowlders. The front of the 
low blurt' shows plainly that the cla}'- has been washed out, 
leaving the stones bare. The terrace is 50 to 60 feet wide. 
The road south of the field crosses a small stream and a small 
deltoid fiat about 15 feet lower than the upper bench. These 
terraces were followed through the woods toward the south- 
west where some of them are more strongly developed, and 
