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present shore, according to J. W. Lockwood, who found them so 
close together as to make it difficult to steer a scow among them. 
Later J. G. Yeckley, who lives near, confirmed the statement 
that trunks with roots attached extend out half a mile from the 
present shore. He took from the water some five hundred trees 
still quite sound, using them for posts. They were mostly oak 
and hickory, though others got out a few of walnut. The main 
object in removing the timber was to clear the bottom so as to 
permit the hauling of seines. He spent parts of three years in 
this work. 
In the marshes east ‘of Sandusky I found in March, 1898, a 
number of prostrate trunks with roots extending down some 
distance so that I thought they must have grown there before 
the land had been converted into a marsh. A number of these 
were sixty rods or more from the present shore of the marsh. 
From the shallower part of the marsh nearer shore I was informed 
that in a dry season hundreds of walnut trunks had been removed 
for timber, and that a number of walnut stumps were still stand- 
ing where the ground was too wet for trees of that kind. 
“In tracing the west line of Huron Township across the 
marsh in 1885 it was found that the original survey made about 
1810, referred to trees standing at different places where for 
many years past has been only marsh.’’—Ed. Hinde. 
Hunters in pushing their skiffs through the marsh often 
strike submerged timber with their setting poles. Besides wal- 
nut I found basswood, cedar, pine, beech, and sassafras, but it 
is not certain that all of these grew near where they now lie. 
Planks have been found two or three feet below the surface of 
the marsh. The floods of 1858—’61 carried not only these but 
many trees that had been uprooted. All that had been growing 
on Cedar Point between the Carrying Ground and the vicintiy of 
Rye Beach were swept off into the marsh. These have perhaps 
all rotted since, but others of kinds more enduring that grew 
along the Huron River or other streams may have been carried 
into the lake by the freshets of that time and washed over the 
Cedar Point bar by the northeast storms. 
Cedar stumps still standing where the trees grew have been 
found in several places about the bay, their roots and in some 
instances their tops below the water level. Sept. 11, 1904, the 
high water of the summer having washed away a portion of 
Rosebush Point (near the end of Cedar Point) I noticed a num- 
ber of stumps, cedars and others, with roots at or below water 
level. A root of one of the cedars was fourteen feet long. Nov. 
19 when I was on another part of Cedar Point the dredge at work 
near the south end of the lagoon between ridges No. 2 and 3 
