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houses to Long Point, and one from Long Point northeast, this last 

 being cooped up like the roof on a house. 



There was a large crack from the south end of the lake near 

 the Farrar cottage northward to the shore near the Academy along 

 which the ice buckled up and then fell back by overlapping, a phe- 

 nomenon which old residents had never observed before. On the 

 22d the lake was open in deep water and on the 24th the ice was 

 breaking up. 



In 1901, on January 1, it was cold and the ice grew very fast; 

 on the 2d the lake was frozen over except one pool near the Deep 

 Hole. Teams were cleaning snow off the ice near the ice-houses. On 

 the 3d the pool was still open; this was between Long Point and 

 the McOuat cottage and was only 18 or 20 feet in diameter. The 

 ice was "cracking" a good deal all day and shoving up on shore and 

 booming and rumbling at night. On the 6th there were 3 or 4 

 inches of water on the ice and again on the 8th when the ice was 

 full of holes; on the 9th it was dry and clear; on the 10th it was 

 getting rotten and breaking into cakes and by the 12th it was 

 unsafe, but was firmer on the 13th ; rotted again on the 14th, but on 

 the 15th again became firm and showed beautiful mosaics. It sang 

 much and loudly nearly all morning, but rotted in the afternoon. 

 On the 18th it was 4| inches thick, solid and singing much. On 

 the 19th it was 7.5 inches thick at the ice-houses. There was 

 much noise, a sort of groaning, at night, and many new cracks were 

 noted the next morning. On the 21st the ice was very rotten, and 

 at night a good deal of noise, ringing sharp cracks as if the ice 

 were giving and falling. On the 23d it melted a good deal on top, 

 and was about 5 inches thick. On the 27th the big hole was still 

 open ; on the 28th it was 5.5 to 7 inches thick on the east side, but 

 weak. On the 29th, 7.75 to 8 inches thick and covered with water 

 in some places. 



The January record for 1902 is brief. The ice was 8.5 inches 

 thick on the 1st, 9 on the 3d, 10 on the 6th, 11.5 on the 16th, 12 on 

 the 17th and 18th, 12.5 on the 20th, 13 on the 21st, 14 on the 27th 

 and 28th, and 15 on the 31st. The lake was very low. On the 

 27th the ice was shoving up some on the north and east shores but 

 not much on the west side. 



In January, 1903, the ice was 5 inches thick on the 7th, 10 on 

 the 12th, 12 on the 19th, and 13 on the 23d. The ice company 

 began to put up ice on the 13th. 



In January, 1905, the records are few. On the first, the ice 

 was rotten and rapidly disappearing, and there was a large hole 



