1904] WELD: BOTANICAL SURVEY OF HURON VALLEY 37 
is a strip of tamarack swamp and low ground several acres in 
extent, through which flows to the southwest the outlet, a mere 
ditch, dry except in spring. Across the road, north of the pres- 
ent lake, is a small marsh, part of the same basin, cut off in the 
early days by a corduroy road and now by the high embankment 
of the trolley line. It had no drainage to the north. The general 
Fic. 1.—First lake from the N. W. on the trolley embankment. 
relations are shown in the view from the trolley embankment 
(fig. r). 
About 1200* (365™) to the south lies asecond lake, larger 
and nearly circular in outline, hemmed in except on the north 
and northwest by badly eroded hills. Its outlet is a ditch on 
the north side, which joins the outlet from the first, then flows 
straight west, crossing the road, through a low marsh, nearly to 
the woods beyond, and then turns to the northwest. West of 
the second, a quarter of a mile away, is the third lake, the lar- 
