56 Lake Maxinkuckee, Physical and Biological Survey 



cottage on the east side toward the north end of Hawk's house on 

 the west side, gave the following depths in feet: 2f, 4^, 5, 4, Sf, 

 3-J, 3, 3, 3f, 3^-, and 1^. The greatest depth found was 5 feet. 

 The bottom everywhere was covered with a dense bed of Chara, 

 patches of Potamogeton, Myriophyllum, etc., with white and yel- 

 low pond-lilies at the west end, all growing in deep mud. In most 

 places the sounding pole could be pushed down 2 to 8 feet in soft 

 muck. 



At the lower end of the lake just where it narrows, the depth 

 varied from 5 to 9 feet, and the bottom was more firm in some 

 places. A little farther north and west is a considerable area over 

 which the depth is uniformly 9 feet, which is the greatest depth 

 found in this lake. A line run from the lower to the upper end of 

 the lake gave 9 feet along the southwest end and 8 to 4 feet toward 

 the northeast. Along this line there was an abundance of Chara, 

 Myriophyllum, etc., and the bottom everywhere was of very soft 

 muck; in fact, the bottom everywhere is of this character and in 

 some places it is so thin as to be almost impalpable. 



In front of the Bardsley cottage is a "floating island", probably 

 a detached portion of a pond-lily patch that has floated away from 

 shore, or possibly material that has been built up around a musk- 

 rat home. 



This lake is so shallow that a lowering of the water 15 feet 

 would convert the entire lake-bed and many acres of marsh into 

 tillable land. 



The margin of Lost Lake outlet is a wide plain bordered by 

 a gravelly hill; then an inner margin of a broad belt of Bidens 

 comosa and B. laevis, then sedges. Many of the sedges in the 

 former portion are annually cut for hay, chiefly for the Calamagros- 

 tis they contain. 



Outlet Creek 



At the lower end of Lost Lake is another marsh similar to 

 that at the upper end but larger, in which the outlet stream again 

 gradually becomes definite and well defined. The upper portion 

 may be regarded practically as a continuation of the lake, so over- 

 grown with water-lilies, spatterdock and other water plants as to 

 obscure its lake character as well as the channel. This marsh- 

 lake gradually narrows, however, and finally becomes a well-defined 

 creek, filled in places with patches of long-stemmed Ceratophyl- 

 lum, Potamogeton, and some wild rice. Then the stream becomes 

 a quite definitely defined creek with low grass-grown banks pur- 

 suing its way with many windings and turns through low grassy 



