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Ontario and on Lake Huron and Michigan also, 

 indicate tilting, and tilting in the same direction as at 

 Lake Erie and not only that but the amount cor- 

 responds with the distance apart of the two points 

 compared. Furthermore the direction of the tilting 

 indicated by these measurements is the same as that 

 indicated by the dip of the old lake beaches. We are 

 therefore forced to the conclusion that the basins of the 

 great lakes have been considerably tilted and that this 

 tilting has been going on in the present century. As 

 the outlet of Lake Erie is at that end of the basin 

 which has been raised more than any other part, the 

 result has been to deepen the water throughout, but 

 especially at the opposite end where the islands are 

 situated. The spreading of the waters over the land 

 should be here more noticeable for another reason also, 

 viz.; because the shores are so low. We should there- 

 fore expect to find here in the form of submerged 

 forests and other things that could not have formed 

 under water, evidence of the spreading of the waters of 

 the lake over the land, and so we do. 



OLD TREES KILLED BY RISE OF THE WATER. 



By the high water that prevailed in 1858 to 1860 

 large trees were killed in many places where the waves 

 could not reach them. Mr. George Hine, who owns 

 land bordering the marsh east of Sandusky, had 

 hickory trees two feet in diameter killed in this way. 

 On Kelley's Island large sycamore trees standing on the 

 border of the south marsh, on Put-in-Bay elm and 

 sycamore, on Middle Bass big trees growing by the 

 marsh near Rehberg's, and at Toussaint and elsew^here 

 along the shore between Port Clinton and Toledo old 

 walnut trees, were killed at this time by high water 

 keeping the ground too wet around their roots. Per- 

 sons who came to Erie county in the forties remember 

 seeing about the marshes connected with the bay many 



