The Abandoned Shore Lines of Green Bay. — Taylor. '.Vl'.\ 
ridges and small dunes were observed along this shore, reach- 
ing up to 40 or 50 feet above the lake. One of the most at- 
tractive spots on the Great Lakes is this little harbor at Fay- 
ette, an abandoned furnace town. It was formerly, and very 
appropriately, called Snailshell Harbor. It is formed in part 
by the northward extension of a gravelly spit from the end 
Of a projecting reef. The opening is toward the north. On 
the east side of the harbor there is an overhanging wall of 
limestone about eighty feet high. Back of the top of this 
cliff there is an extensive level plateau at about 100 feet, and 
along its edge, about fifteen rods back from the cliff, it is 
bordered by a rather irregular beach ridge, formed apparently 
of fragments torn from the front edge of the cliff and thrown 
up by the waves. Many of the fragments are angular. The 
flat itself looked as though it had been washed over. Parts 
of its surface and of the slopes farther north are literally 
paved with slabs of limestone. 
Two miles east of Fayette is South Bay hill, which is nearly 
as high as the hill at Burnt Bluff. Near its top we found a 
distinct beach ridge, forming a sharp point projecting toward 
the northwest. Toward the south the ridge is replaced within 
a quarter of a mile by a low sea-cliff of limestone, which faces 
west. Near the point the beach forms an acute angle, and the 
road crosses it first from the smith, passes along about 300 
feet in the lagoon behind the point, and then crosses the beach 
again to the lower ground on the northeast. The altitude of 
this beach is about 135 feet. As at Burnt Bluff, there is ;i 
lower sheir which is bordered by a barrier beach ridge. It is 
only about ten feet below the highest beach, and the ridge 
which borders its western front appears to join the front angle 
or point of the highest beach as a spit formed at a slightly 
lower level. The ground above the level of the highest beach 
presents the same characters as that on the top of Burnt Bluff 
hill and appears to be an unmodified surface of drift. Bui 
this island was neither so high nor so large as the other. 
About four miles north of South Bay hill is another plateau 
not so high, not high enough to be an island. Light beach 
ridges were observed along its eastern slope at about 7-"> and 
lot) feet, and for a long distance along its eastern edge there 
is a strong beach ridge at about L 10 feet. This hill is called 
