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a ditch into McDonald Lake or pond, in the western central part of Sec. 
22, thence northwesterly into Johnson Lake, on the north line of See. 21, 
which has an area of about 10 acres. Water is reported deep, 30 to 35 
feet. Baker Lake or pond, a litthe northwest of the center of See. 21, 
drains into Johnson Lake. The outlet of this lake flows northwesterly 
through a pond and surrounding marsh into Baughner Lake. The outlet 
of Brown Lake drains a wide area of land, but there is considerable wet 
land along this valley that the present ditch does not drain. Two other 
ponds in Sec. 16 are drained into Baughner Lake. From this lake the 
river runs a little south of west about 1144 miles into ‘tthe Dam,” a pond 
on the line between sections 18 and 19, so that it is in the S. E. 4 See. 
18 and N. BE. 4% Sec. 19. It has an area of about 15 acres and was formed 
by a dam about 10 feet high. It is shallow and abounds with vegetation. 
From “the Dam” the river flows westerly and northwesterly through Keiser 
Lake, small and shallow, into the Backwater, a shallow body of water 
occupying a large part of the south half of Sec. 18, Town. 33 N., Range 
7 W., Kosciusko County; thence northwesterly through ‘the channel” 
into Boydstone or Webster Lake, in sections 10, 11, 12, 14 and 15, Tippe- 
canoe Township, Kosciusko County, Ind. 
