Notice of the Peninsula of Michigan. 30% 
oe oo eae Se tala, and is” ‘Supposed ‘to issue from a 
imestone bed. 
Sienied springs emuumainy petroleum indicating coal, 
occur in the north-west part of Michigan. 
Small lakes and ponds are numerous in the peninsula, wid 
are generally deep. One situated in Oakland county, was 
found not fathomable by a line more than 200 feet in length. 
Lake Erie has about thirty-five fathoms of water above its 
lowest bed, though it is not often more than twenty-five in 
depth. Lake St. Clair is shallow, rarely exceeding four fathoms. 
Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Laporte are in places 
900 feet sp sinking about 300 feet below the level of the 
“The la bes and ponds of Michigan are filled with pare water, 
abounding in fish—they hav e sandy bottoms, and | 
on their borders, and origianve aay: of the large rivers of 
the territory. ‘They are the most numerous in’ mexetig 
oak openings of Wastenaw and Oakland ee: ‘where 
oti 200 are located. 
om a moderate elevation in Oakland codaty; forty miles 
sitcheorest from Detroit, thirty considerable sheets of water 
are in view, afier the leaves of the forest have fallens > In 
riding the distance of four anda half miles from Pontiac in 
this vicinity, I passed near the borders of eight lakes and 
ponds. -Two of them, lakes Orchard and Cass are more 
than ten miles in circumference, and are handsome, pure 
bodies of water : ce ot eb sandy bottoms and ers. 
i ir banks g t thirty feet, with a steop 
clivity. The adjace ent sdiaitaars which is table land, or: 
iy sindulatings- tere with a aetasweaee ey — 
owers. Trees of yellow oak 
siiiat or associated in groups.” 
A pleasant fertile island, containin + aon: fy teen; 
which there is an orchard, rises in t ee of Orchard 
Lake, and is cuitivated by Indians, who occupy g 
huts in the primitive state, situated adjacent to the Eire on the 
table land isthmus, that separates lakes Orchard and Cass, 
ommands a view of these extensive sheets of water. 
old Indian burial ground is placed near the dwellings. 
pert of corn mottled with a diversity of colours, and dried 
fish, were suspended within and around their huts. The lit 
- e furniture the 8 possess is mostly of their own fabrication— 
kets spread on the ground, or on wooden platforms con- 
