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Tur HerapwATERS OF THE TIPPECANOE RIVER. 
BY ds J SCOVELE: 
The Wabash is the great river of Indiana. It rises in Ohio, flows 
westerly across Indiana, then southerly along the western boundary of the 
State into the Ohio River. The 'Tippecanoe River is the chief tributary of 
the Wabash from the north. 
The Tippecanoe has its sources in two groups of lakes situated in the 
southwestern part of Noble County and in the northern part of Whitley 
County, Indiana. 
Crane Lake and Crooked Lake, through short outlets, flow into Big or 
Tippecanoe Lake. Goose Lake, New Lake and Old Lake flow into Loon 
Lake. The outlet of Tippecanoe Lake flows westerly and northerly about 
two miles, where it joins the outlet of Loon Lake, forming Tippecanoe 
River. This stream flows northwesterly about five miles into Smalley 
Lake, and thence westerly 14% miles into Baughner Lake, thence south of 
west through marshes and ponds 114% miles into a mill-pond, called “the 
Dam; thence northwesterly through Kaiser. Lake, the Backwater and 
the Channel about 314 miles into Boydstone Lake, in the eastern part of 
Kosciusko County; thence westerly about two miles into Tippecanoe Lake, 
of Kosciusko County. 
Through the greater part of this distance there is quite a distinct 
valley. It varies greatly in width and in the hight and steepness of its 
bluffs. This valley, these lakes and ponds, the marshes and connecting 
streams are in or on a mass of glacial materials that was probably de- 
posited from the Erie Lobe of the continental ice sheet. These materials 
help to form what Frank Leverett calls the Mississinewa Moraine. This 
moraine extends from White County northwesterly to Steuben County. It 
covers Noble County and large parts of Steuben, Lagrange, Dekalb, Whit- 
ley, Kosciusko, Fulton, Wabash, Miami, Cass and White counties. It in- 
cludes the northern portion of Dr. C. R. Dryer’s Mississinewa—Hel Mo- 
raine. 
Dr. Dryer says “it is an irregular, variously undulating pile of ciay, 
sand, graved and boulders, with a total thickness of from 200 to 485 feet. 
