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LAKE MAXINKUCKEE Sounpines. By J. T. ScoveE.t. 
Lake Maxinkuckee is situated in Marshall County, Indiana. It oc- 
cupies parts of sections 15, 16, 21, 22, 27, 28 and 34 of township 32, north 
of range 1, east of the second principal meridian. The lake is a little more 
than two and a half miles long from north to south, and is a trifle over 
one and a half miles wide. It has an area of about 1,906 acres. The lake 
is quite uniform in outline, Long Point, on the west, forming the only 
acute angle in its gently-curving shore lines. There are three small inlets 
on the east, and its surplus waters are drained into the Tippecanoe River 
through a sluggish outlet from the west side of the lake. On the north 
and east there is considerable boulder clay, but in general the soils and 
subsoils are sand and gravel. Nearly one-half of the shore line is low, 
the bhlance rising abruptly into low hills which in some instances reach 
an elevation of 50 or 60 feet above the waters of the lake. ‘The low lands 
along the lake are not extensive; in fact, the drainage area is scarcely 
larger than the lake itself. The “Inlet,” a small stream which enters the : 
southeast angle of the lake, is only about three miles long, and its valley 
is generally narrow. The little creek that comes in from the northeast 
drains but a small area. Except along these streams the lake divide is 
seldom more than a half mile from the lake. While the shores are some- 
times low and the water shallow, the bottom along shore is generally hard 
sand or gravel. The boulder clay, the hills of sand and gravel, the granite 
boulders and the numerous kettle holes signify that the surface features 
of the region about Lake Maxinkuckee are due to glacial action. Is the 
lake a series of great kettle holes or is it part of an old drainage channel? 
What is the form and substance of its bed? What kinds of vegetation 
and animal life occur in its waters, and what is its capacity for the 
support of food and game fishes? A systematic sounding of the lake 
seemed necessary to an answer of these questions. 
In 1896 I drew an outline of the lake from the meander notes of the 
original survey, on a scale of 8.8 inches per mile or 60 feet to the inch. 
Karly in August, 1897, when I went to the lake to commence sounding, 
I found Professor C. H. Drybread, with Mr. W. A. Denny and Mr. De- 
laskie Smith, from the State University, already at work locating lines 
preliminary to the actual work of making the soundings. They made 
seventeen lines of soundings across the lake, ten from east to west and 
