Upon receiving your letter Weds., I packed my satchel and went up to Ashley that evening. I spent yesterday and today in the north parts of the Elsie-Perrinton quads. I am sorry you could not be with me, but the roads are now so bad you would have had a hard time. I went on foot, walking on the grass at the side of the road, and covered 24.5 miles yesterday and about 12-13 today, but I had to start back at 2.18 PM. I will discuss the results in the order written in my notes. At Ashley, the bank that looks like a cut bank has so little gravel that I am not certain it is a shoreline, and its base is below 670'. A mile NW of Ashley (NW part of Sec. 6 & E part of Sec. 1, Elsie quad.), a sandy ridge catches the 680' contour and may be the Warren shore line. I presume this shore runs NE to Sec. 28 but I did not follow it into Hazelton Tp. The map suggests that there is an offset eastward. This beach may embrace the ridges at 685' in Hazelton. Are these little ridges on a waterlaid moraine? The contours suggest a continuation S which may tie into a bowldery belt running through parts of Elba Tp. I went by train to North Star yesterday AM and then went W a mile and S 1/2 mile to a strong bar of sandy gravel, generally 735-747', that barely touches the 740' contour in places in the North Star Tp. It may be the Arkona beach and the altitude at 735-740' shows considerable uplist in this quad. because it is only 725-728' in Elsie. I then went to North Star Tp, NE corner Sec. 30, and followed a sandy gravel bar always near the 750'throughout that Section 30 and into secs. 31 and 36; it is probably 1st Lake Saginaw. I also found Upper Arkona at above the 730'. I did not have time to trace the 2 high beaches further SW as they were nearly at the outlet level at 725' and 735'. After dinner at Pompeii, I traced the 2nd Arkona beach at ~710' contour S of Pompeii; it reaches 715'further on. There are several houses built on offshore bars and beaches in various sections. The 2nd Arkona continues at ~720' up to the North Star Church and beyond. There are gravel pits and a flat gravel belt to the S that run ENE; I think these may be glacial outwash like a washed down Arkona Beach. This may be a waterlaid moraine with outwash on the N side. I walked the RR track back to Ashley. Today I went to Bannister and examined the sand ridges and shallow draws 2-3 miles N of Bannister. It is likely that some water discharged westward into the Maple River along the line of the two drains in that area. One drain has a fine gravel deposit but the other has clay under the muck, being excavated not aggraded channel. I went to Elsie for dinner; the village is on a bar that rises to the 1st Lake Saginaw level and its N base is the highest Arkona.