280 The American Geologist. November, 1894 
eral creeks, and below, toward the lake, the wide flats built 
up largely with the silt brought down from above. 
Huntsville. As it passes northward from Bracebridge the 
railroad climbs up out of the gorge of theMuskoka river, and 
toward Huntsville passes over ground mostly at or near the 
level of the beach at Bracebridge. At several points heavy 
deposits of water-worn gravel and pebbles are crossed. At 
its highest point the railroad appeared to pass somewhat above 
the level of these sediments. But on the descent toward 
Huntsville the gravels are particularly conspicuous, choking 
up the beds of all the small streams and forming long, narrow 
gravel plains. At several points these deposits have been 
excavated for ballast. At Huntsville station the evidence of, 
postglacial submergence is very clear, although it is not 
strongly developed. The station is on the east shore of an 
arm of Vernon lake and its altitude above the sea is 960 feet. 
A steep hill rises back of the station to a hight of over 350 
feet, and along the base of this hill, almost within a stone's 
throw of the station, the highest shore line is sharply and 
clearly marked as a cut terrace. Its altitude above the sta- 
tion is about 40 feet. For over half a mile along the western 
face of this hill the shore line is plain and continuous, and it 
was easily recognized for about a mile farther each way. At 
the back of the terrace the old bluff rises ten or fifteen feet 
more steeply than the general slope of the hill above. I 
climbed to the top of the hill, starting up opposite Cook's ho- 
tel, and reached a point over 300 feet above the shore line, but 
saw no further evidence of submergence. The top of this hill 
commands a grand view over most of the country around. Sev- 
eral lakes are in sight at once, Vernon lake toward the north- 
west, Fairy lake and Peninsula lake toward the east;, lake 
Mary toward the southwest was not in sight, but the water 
from the other lakes passes down through it and the north 
branch of the Muskoka river to Bracebridge. The shore line at 
Huntsville is not in a place exposed to a wide sweep of waters 
like Georgian bay, but marks the shore of a former sound or 
long inlet, which reached from the inland vallej^s to the open 
water at Bracebridge. The valley is wide and open all the 
way from the head of Vernon lake. Steamers ply from Hunts- 
ville to all these lakes, and by a portage of less than a mile 
