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a corduroy road about 60 rods long was built across 

 Mud Creek bayou, which, it is said, had been submerged 

 for many years, when, in 1867, the water being tempo- 

 rarily very low, Mr. Carpenter removed many of the 

 logs. 



A survey made in 1887 of the Huron marsh at the 

 east end of Sandusky bay shows that a tract of land 

 one-half mile square, surveyed in 1809 has since become 

 marsh with the water and mud 12 to 18 inches deep, 

 and for two miles west of it, as far as it was surveyed, 

 the shore line has moved south about five rods. These 

 changes are certainly not due to erosion. Elsewhere 

 about Sandusky bay and along the shore of the lake 

 land has disappeared, partly from erosion and partly 

 because of the rising water covering it and giving the 

 waves new points of attack. The western part of the 

 city of Sandusky has suffered much from the encroach- 

 ment of the bay and along nearly the whole shore west 

 to Martin's Point and beyond land has disappeared. 

 So it is also along the lake. The surveys show that 

 for seven miles west from the Vermillion River the lake 

 has encroached upon the land between 20 and 34 rods 

 since 1809. From the Huron River to Dr. Esch's place, 

 about one and one-half miles west, the shore line has 

 moved south a distance varying from 18 to 28 rods, 

 west of this not so much. Since 1809 more than 500 

 acres have been lost to Erie county along the lake and 

 in the eastern part of the bay, and many acres more 

 between Sandusky and the western limit of the county. 

 On the north side of the bay, too, the water has 

 extended, open water covering ground where cat-tails 

 once grew. John Stone of Put-in-Bay, and Warren 

 Smith of Sandusky, remember when rushes grew over 

 much of Sandusky Bay where now is open water. 

 Until the middle of the century an island known as 

 Peninsula Point extended across nearly the whole 

 breadth of what is now the mouth of the bay. For the 



