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two points. A line drawn from the Palmer House to the mouth 

 of Overmyer's brook passes over the east end of the Weedpatch ; 

 one from the Lakeview Hotel to the same point passes over the 

 west end of it ; and a line from the tip of Long Point to the Chan- 

 dler cottage passes over the center of the Weedpatch. 



This bar rises rather abruptly from 40-foot water, the mini- 

 mum depth on the bar being about 10 feet, of which there is an 

 area of about 4 acres. 



The Weedpatch is remarkable because of the very luxuriant 

 growth of the large-leaved pondweed, Potamogeton amplifolius, 

 found there. 



The Kettlehole: — This is a deep hole about 1,000 feet off the 

 shore between Murray's and Farrar's, in the southwestern corner of 

 the lake. Over the greater part of this portion of the lake the depth 

 is less than 10 feet. At the Kettlehole the depth increases rather 

 abruptly to 20 feet, 30 feet, and then to 40 feet. The area over 

 which the depth is 20 feet or more is ovoid in shape, the major 

 axis being about 1,000 feet, east and west, while the north and 

 south line is about 700 feet. The area of 40-foot water is about 

 600 feet long (from east to west) and not much over 100 feet wide. 



While the above are the only topographic features of the lake 

 bottom which have received definite names there are several others 

 worthy of special mention. Among deep holes are the following: 

 In front of the Arlington Hotel, or little south of it, and about 

 1,200 feet off shore is an oblong area of 60-foot water, about 1,000 

 feet long from southwest to northeast, and about 200 feet wide. 

 This is surrounded by much shallower water. A short distance 



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