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3 or 4 ft. of vegetable mould & peat upon which rises a rank growth of grass. Sloping back up a gradual ascent a few hundred yds or less the surface of this rises and meets a slope rising at a much greater angle and curving up to the rounded summits of the rolling hills which extend into the interior from here. The following outline gives an idea of a section of the country. 

100 yds to 300 or 400yds 
4 = Rolling hill extremely back into country
1 vegetable mould. 2 = ice. 3 fallen earth resting on icy slope. 5 = Probable limit of ice.

All along the shore here a peculiar smell fills the air from the mass of decaying vegetable matter exposed. Toward the Eastern End of the face of the cliff on a slightly projecting point I found an old beaver house inbedded in the earth with two feet of vegertable mould on top of it it was exposed in section by the crumbling of the bank and rested as in the following section-

} = ft peaty earth 
about 6 ft.
frozen silt 
about 25 feet
sea level