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6. "A line from north to south parallel to line 5, but about 300 

 feet east of it. Depths— S, 17, 10, 22, 26, 28, 28, 29, 

 28, 28, 25, 20, 16, 6. 



7. A line north from the boat-landing near Hall's house. 



Depths— 2, 12, 18, 24, 36, 40+, 40+, 34, 32, 12, 3. 



8. A line from the ice-house on north side near the church 



southwest to Hall's boat-landing. Depths — 7, 16, 19, 

 20, 20, 22, 26, 26, 24, 24, 26, 28, 27, 30, 32, 38, 39, 41, 

 42, 41, 41, 40, 38. 



The lake seems to occupy a long, narrow trough, with abrupt 

 sides all around and with pretty uniform depth. There are 2 

 deep holes, — one just off Hall's landing and another about the 

 same distance from the west end of the lake. The depth in 

 each of these scarcely exceeds 40 feet, — the greatest found in 

 the eastern being 42 feet, and 40 feet in the western. 



The abruptness of the descent all around tlie lake is worthy 

 of note, as this lake in tliis regard differs markedly from Lake 

 Maxinkuckee. 



The water of Fletcher Lake is unusually cold.' The bottom 

 temperature is about 2 degrees lower than that of Lake Maxin- 

 kuckee, although the depth is less than half as great. This 

 greater coldness has its effect on tlie animal and plant life 

 of the lake. The game and food-fislics are sufficiently numer- 

 ous as to species and individuals to make it of considerable 

 interest to local anglers. Of the 22 species of fishes known 

 from it, at least 14 are food-fishes of some value and at 

 least 8 possess some game qualities. The most important are 

 the straw bass, calico bass and the yellow perch. Each of these 

 is sufficiently abundant to attract many anglers to this beautiful 

 little lake. 



Fauna of Fletcher Lake. 



Not much attention was paid to any of the animals of the 

 lake except the fishes. A large number of dead shells of Fla- 

 norhis campanidata were seen on shore, and mussels were said to 

 be pretty abundant iAnodonta grandis), specimens of which were 

 later sent us by xMr. Joseph Clark Taylor of Logansport. A 

 number of whirligig beetles were noticed on the surface of the 

 water, and several cricket frogs were caught. 



The following is a list of the fishes known from this lake; 



