28 Lake Maxinkuckee, Physical and Biological Survey 



N orris Inlet has its sources in some small springs southeast of 

 the lake and about two miles distant. It flows in a northwesterly 

 direction and enters the lake through the marsh at the southeast 

 corner. Though this creek does not carry much, if any, more 

 water than either of the others just described, it is usually spoken 

 of as ''the inlet". The upper part of this creek flows through 

 fields and other cleared land, and the banks are usually well defined 

 and sodded. The marsh about the Norris Inlet is about 80 rods 

 wide and 14 mile long, and is a flat, level, quaking bog full of 

 holes. The lower portion of the creek is through a wet marsh 

 with an abundance of marsh-grass and sedges but with scarcely 

 any woody vegetation except a few bushes of Decodon verticillata, 

 scattered low clumps of pussy-willow, and an occasional button 

 bush (Cejjhakinthus). There is but little vegetation in the upper 

 part of this stream, but the lower part is well filled with horn- 

 wort (Ceratophylhini) , milfoil (Myrio'phyllurn verticillatum), spat- 

 terdock (Nymphaea advena), and various species of duckweeds. 



Overmyer's Brook: — A few rods west from the mouth of Nor- 

 ris Inlet is a small brook about a mile long which usually contains 

 some water. This may be called Overmyer's Brook or Creek. Be- 

 sides this there is a very small brook a few rods long near the south- 

 west corner, another small one coming from the Peebles' flowing 

 well on the northeast part of the lake, and two or three very small 

 streams from flowing wells at the north end. 



The total volume of water carried into the lake by these vari- 

 ous little streams cannot be conveniently nor accurately deter- 

 mined ; but from observations and experiments made at various 

 times, the total daily flow during July and August, 1900, probably 

 did not exceed 400 gallons per minute. 



Floiving wells: — There are on the immediate shores of the lake 

 more than 100 wells, of which about 50 are flowing wells, i.e., wells 

 in which the water rises above the surface of the ground without 

 being pumped. With the exception of one or two recently dug 

 along the south shore, these wells are all located on the east and 

 north sides of the lake. Beginning just north of Norris Inlet, 

 flowing wells have been secured at irregular intervals all along 

 the east shore and across the north end, the last one being at the 

 Vandalia Railroad station at Culver. These wells vary greatly in 

 depth ; some are only 27 to 30 feet deep, while others are as 

 much as 138 feet deep. The depths of all were not learned, 

 but the majority seem to be between 50 and 80 feet. In driving 

 these wells it often happened that flowing water could be obtained 

 at a certain depth, and, by going deeper, a stronger flow would 



