172 LAKES AND RIVERS, 



these weights, says a writer in Land and Water?- in 

 1866, are seldom, if ever, met with in these days. In 

 the old stones about this lake it was said that, let the 



Lobelia Dortmanna. 



rain be never so abundant, or the summer's heat never 



so parching, the quantity of water neither increased 



nor decreased ; wind alone caused any of the water to 



1 Mark Heron. 



