38 Lake Maxinkuckee, Physical and Biological Survey 



cillata. This plant forms a fringe on each border some distance 

 upstream about a quarter of a mile. 



Besides the spatterdock already mentioned as growing in the 

 bottom, the water of the Inlet contains much vegetation on its 

 surface along the edges — the various duckweeds in great masses, 

 and great quantities of the floating liverwort, Riccia fiuitans. The 

 duckweeds thrive in great abundance at the mouth of the Inlet. 



From Norris Inlet to the Norris pier — about 1,000 feet — the 

 shore, except for the last few yards, is low and boggy. The ice- 

 ridge is pretty plainly marked for much of this distance. At Nor- 

 ris's the low flat country ceases and the hill slopes gently down 

 to the water's edge. The ice-ridge stops and the beach is composed 

 of a strip of gravelly sand. Then the ice-ridge reappears and is 

 overgrown with tall willows and sycamores. 



From the Norris pier northward the shore is low, but rises 

 near the Indianapolis pier and continues high until Aubeenaubee 

 Creek is reached. The beach is mostly of fine firm sand with con- 

 siderable gravel in places and a number of large granite boulders 

 sparsely scattered near shore. 



At the mouth of Aubeenaubee Creek the country has been modi- 

 fied somewhat by dredging and straightening the stream. The 

 stream now flows through the center of a marshy tract about 200 

 feet wide. This marsh is of flat black miry ground covered with 

 a rank growth of marsh vegetation. 



From Aubeenaubee Creek northward to beyond the Maxin- 

 kuckee road is a long stretch of low, level ground extending back 

 to beyond the public highway. The hills or high ground recede 

 gradually from the lake, leaving broad, dry greenswards of gentle 

 slope. Just north of the Maxinkuckee road the high ground again 

 approaches the lake and forms an abrupt bluft' 20 to 50 feet high 

 for a distance of about three-fourths of a mile, or to the southeast 

 corner of Aubeenaubee Bay. The only considerable break in this 

 line is the narrow canyon of Spangier Creek just south of Brownell 

 Point. There is another small gully north of the Indiana boat- 

 house. Throughout this entire distance the shore rises abruptly 

 from the water line and much of it is protected by a stone break- 

 water. There is, consequently, no beach. In the shallow water 

 near shore are a good many granite boulders of various sizes, and 

 a few masses of post-glacial conglomerate. This shore is the 

 highest and most abrupt of any about the lake; it is also the most 

 considerable section of high shore. 



At Aubeenaubee Bay the high ground recedes from the lake 

 front and turns suddenly almost at a right angle from the lake. 



