Beaches on Islands in Georgian Bay. — Coinstock. 315 
This terrace was followed for some two miles and is well 
defined on the southern and eastern sides of the island where 
the hight of the surface is sufficient to show it. Back of the 
village its hight above the bay is sixty-six feet( level and bar.), 
but in several other places its hight was found by barometer 
to vary from fifty-three to fifty-seven feet. The greater ele- 
vation near the village may possibly be due. in part, to the ac- 
FiG. 5. — Wave-cut terrace against hill on Beausoleil island. 
The arrow indicates the terrace. 
cumulation of material upon it from the slope above, as the 
surface is here unwooded and quite bare while at the other 
points where measured the surface was quite well protected 
by timber. 
At one point against the eastern side of the northern hill 
this beach has a hight of fifty-seven feet from which a uniform 
slope covered with cobbles and small boulders rises to ninty- 
one feet where it meets the nearly vertical face of the hill rising 
to 105 feet, the general level of the top. On this line the west- 
ern side of the island descends abruptly from 105 feet to 91 
