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It may prove a matter of interest to some, in another generation, to have this 

 line traced with even this much definiteness, although, of course, it has not been 

 given with the entire accuracy of a surveyor's tieUl notes; for the drying up of 

 water courses and the drainage by means of hirge ditches have already almost 

 consigned to oblivion the names and the winding beds of some of the small 

 streams that were well known to the Illinois and Indiana pioneers. 



Some Notice of vStreams, Springs, Wells and Sand Ridoes in Lake 

 County, Indiana. By T. H. Ball. 



Some of the natural features of Lake Countv, Indiana, are rather peculiar, 

 and are quite surely of interest to students of physical geography. 



Bounded on the north by Lake Michigan, on the west by Illinois, on the south 

 by the Kankakee River, if the waters of Lake Michigan ever passed southward 

 into the Mississippi and the Mexican (iulf, as some suppose, the outflow was 

 quite surely over a part of what is now Lake County. 



Of the two most southern points of the Lake Michigan basin, as stated in a 

 former paper, one is in Lake County, eighteen miles south of Lake Michigan, and 

 the other is distant about fifteen miles, almost exactly west, not far from the Illi- 

 nois line. 



North of the water shed the beds of the streams have an easterly and westerly 

 direction mainly, or northwesterly and northeasterly, while south of this line the 

 streams flow mainly southward. The Calumet, the largest northern stream, is 

 quite peculiar in this respect, that it flows across the county nearly twice, one 

 stream known as the Little, the other as the Grand Calumet. The windings of the 

 bed of Deep River, the second in size, are quite remarkable, and this stream, for 

 some two miles of its course, flows due north. 



While not a region of brooks, there are, nevertheless, in this county, some in- 

 teresting and remarkable springs, about twenty in number, that are quite well 

 known. Three of these are near Crown Point, and in the Deep River Valley. 

 One has excellent, healthful, mineral properties, and one will furnish water suf- 

 ficient, so its owner believed, to supply the wants of a thousand head of cattle 

 each day. A fourth of these springs is near Creston, in the Cedar Creek Valley, 

 affording a large amount of water, and covering several square yards of surface. 

 A fifth one, furnishing quite a flow of water, is on the west side of Red Cedar 

 Lake, north of Paislev, at the base of the low bluff. The sixth is on the east side 



