12 FISHES AND FISHING IN SUNAPEE LAKE. 



occasionally one of them. On September 14, 1910, in Soo-Nipi 

 Park, the brook was entirely dry above the dead water except in a 

 few isolated pools. On July 29, 1911, the brook was very much 

 higher than usual. 



Pike Brook rises in Sutton about 2 miles in a straight line from 

 Sunapee Lake. It is fed entirely by springs, seepage, surface water, 

 and rainfall. At its upper end it is a mere rivulet lying through 

 farm land, but the greater part of it flows through woodland and 

 meadows. It empties into Sunapee Lake a few rods south of King 

 Hill Brook at Soo-Nipi Park. It is evidently more copiously sup- 

 plied by springs and seepage than is King HiU Brook, although about 

 the same size, but perhaps longer. Yet in summer there are often 

 places where the brook bed is dry ; but the water evidently trickles 

 through the sand and amongst the pebbles and rocks. At its lower 

 end there is an extent of "dead water," perhaps 300 or more yards 

 long and 40 or 50 feet wide in places, with a sandy bottom, but its 

 banks are wooded. In summer, like King Hill Brook, and for the 

 same reason, the mouth is obstructed by sand. There are three 

 rather extensive meadows in its course, separated from each other 

 by short tracts of woodland. The first lies about eight-tenths of a 

 mile in a direct line from Sunapee Lake, another some distance 

 farther up, and the other not far from the head of the brook. The 

 first one is the longest and in it are deep pools with sandy bottom; 

 in fact the bottom is sandy in the pools of all the meadows. The 

 meadows are grassy with only occasional clumps of bushes on the 

 brook's brim. The most extensive woodland is below the first meadow, 

 mainly in Soo-Nipi Park. Through the woodlands, while there are 

 some small swampy areas, the brook flows mostly over a bed of 

 sand and gravel and through reaches of bowlders. There are the 

 usual long shallow and occasional deep pools, as well as ripples and 

 miniature rapids, especially in high water. The brook in its quicker 

 portions has an abundant growth of moss (Fontinalis), and water 

 cress is common. 



In the dead water the vegetation consists mainly of bladderwort, 

 floating bur-reed, yellow pond lilies, some water hemlock, and 

 St. John's-wort. The water of Pike Brook in the wooded sections is 

 always cool, but in the open meadows it becomes rather warm in 

 summer. 



Blodgett Brook is represented on the United States Geological 

 Survey topographical map as a single brook having its source in Chalk 

 Pond. Chalk Pond is situated in the township of Newbury, about 

 2 miles in a direct line from Blodgetts Landmg in a southeasterly 

 direction, at an elevation above the sea of something over 1,200 feet. 

 It is slightly and irregularly crescentic in shape, about four-tenths of 

 a mile long by three-twentieths of a mile in greatest width. There are 



