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-and a half feet. Only about half a foot of this was due to differ- 
ence in the stage of water preceding the storms, about three feet 
to the southwest wind and the remainder to the northeast wind. 
‘The maximum wind velocity in the northeaster of June 29, 1902, 
was only thirty miles. In 1888 the anemometer of the U. S. 
Weather Bureau office at Sandusky was removed from the West 
House to the government building which is lower and not so near 
the bay, causing considerable decrease in the total wind move- 
ment registered, so a satisfactory comparison of wind velocity 
in the later and earlier storms cannot be made. In the great 
storm of April 23, 1882, the water was probably more than a foot 
and a half higher than on June 29, 1902. This I infer from 
information furnished by men at the docks. The record of 
gage readings at Cleveland shows the stage of water to have 
been about a foot and a half higher at the time of the earlier 
storm so that the wind effect may have been nearly as great in 
the later one. 
Only once in several years is the water at Sandusky raised 
or lowered from its normal level so much as three feet by the 
wind, while a change of four feet must be very rare. At Cleveland 
the change of level due to the wind is generally less than a foot, 
while at each end of the lake in extreme cases it is six or seven 
feet 
The fluctuations in level of Lake Erie due to changes in the 
amount of water received and lost in a single year are never 
much more than two feet, and in some decades do not exceed 
two and a half feet. 
LAND LOST IN A SINGLE CENTURY. 
PENINSULA POINT. 
Map I, taken from a U. S. Government Chart shows Penin- 
sula Point as it was in 1826. The distance between it and Cedar 
Point was about 3,000 feet but the water off the end of Peninsula 
Point was so shallow that when lowered by drouth and wind the 
distance from point to point was much less. H. A. Lyman, the 
old lighthouse keeper, told me he had seen the water so low that 
he thought the distance across was only about 300 feet. The 
Indians used to swim their ponies across and B. F. Dwelle, who 
lived until 1902, and many others of the early settlers on the 
Marblehead peninsula crossed in the same way. Cattle raised 
on the peninsula were driven to market this way, but not after 
1830. 
