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Dry Cave, about 300 ft. long, set with 

 stalactite and stalagmite formations; 

 perfectly dry. 



Wet Cave, so-called from a spring of 

 cold water some 600 ft. from its mouth; 

 a series of chambers. 



Dancing Cave, a very large chamber. 



Marble Cave, one of the most beautiful 

 of the group; a number of chambers all 

 of good size. 



Reference: 

 Howe. 1896. Historical Collections 



of Ohio, I: 920-922. 

 Map: Bainbridge quadrangle. 



DESCRIPTIONS OP AREAS 



Descriptions of preserves and proposed 

 areas are grouped according to physio- 

 graphic provinces. Within these prov- 

 inces, the arrangement is geographical 

 from north to south and from east to 

 west. Any group of areas located within 

 a denned region as the Sugar Grove 

 Region and the Cincinnati Region is 

 placed under the regional heading; 

 with this is a brief description of the 

 region as a whole ; the descriptions of 

 included areas are correspondingly 

 shortened. Since the topographic map- 

 ping of Ohio has been completed, the 

 name of the quadrangle in which the 

 area lies, is given. 



7. Allegheny Plateau Section of the 

 Appalachian Plateaus Province 



Conneaut Creek Hemlock Forest. (B4.) 

 A privately owned farm on which is a 

 magnificent stand of virgin hemlock. 

 Trees over 100 ft. in height and as much 

 as 4 ft. in diameter. Banks of Conneaut 

 Creek, which borders tract, 50-75 ft. 

 high. 700 ft. 



North Kingsville, 5 mi. east. Ash- 

 tabula County. 



North Conneaut, 2 mi. south (w, a). 

 J. S. Houser. 



Reference: 



Soil Survey of Ashtabula Area. U. S. 

 Dept. Agr., Bur. Soils; in coopera- 

 tion with Ohio Agr. Exp. Sta. 



Map: Conneaut quadrangle. 



Little Mountain White Pine Forest. 

 (F6.) About 40 acres of virgin white 



pine timber. Usual Ohio birds and 

 animals, and in addition the pileated 

 northern woodpecker. No streams of 

 any consequence. Pine grove on a hill 

 extending about 200 ft., above surround- 

 ing country. 1100-1260 ft. 



Mentorf, 4 mi. S.E. (w, a); or Wil- 

 loughby, 8 mi. east. Lake County, 

 Geauga Co. J. S. Houser. 



Map: Mentor quadrangle. 



*Portage Lakes Park. (B2.) State 

 Park. The Portage Lakes consist of a 

 chain of lakes and reservoirs extending 

 southward about 10 mi. from Akron. 

 Twelve larger lakes, and many smaller 

 ones of the "kettle hole" type. Reser- 

 voirs completed in 1840. Water area 

 1600 acres; marsh land 300 acres; em- 

 bankments and islands 79 acres. Aver- 

 age depth, 9 ft. Summit Lake badly 

 polluted; other lakes not polluted or 

 scarcely so. The construction dates 

 back far enough so that conditions of 

 natural stability have long ago been 

 reached in the lakes and reservoirs. 

 Natural lakes were present in most of 

 these bodies of water before the level was 

 raised. A generation ago all of these 

 bodies of water are said to have been 

 exceedingly productive of game and 

 food fishes and though somewhat less 

 productive at the present time, they are 

 still among the best in the state. Condi- 

 tions are still fairly natural as may be 

 shown by the number of species in the 

 lakes, most of them present in abun- 

 dance. Forty species of fish are re- 

 corded, all but two native. The Fish 

 and Game Division maintains an inland 

 fish hatchery of 20 acres on the island 

 at New Reservoir. 1000 ft. 



Akron|, south on Ohio Canal; this 

 part of canal included in dedication of 

 Portage Lakes for park purposes. Sum- 

 mit County. Raymond C. Osburn, 

 Division of Fish and Game. 



Reference: 



Osburn, Raymond C. 1921. Report 

 on Fish Conditions in the Portage 

 Lakes, near Akron, Ohio. Division 



