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and there is no accompanying wind. All parts of the lake freeze, except where it 

 is kept open by springs, but the last place to freeze is a narrow strip from 20 feet 

 to 30 feet wide, extending from the north end of the Channel to Turkey Creek, 

 the outlet of the lake. Ice sometimes forms to a thickness of 6 or 8 inches along 

 the margins of this channel before it freezes over. This is due to a current along 

 this narrow channel towards the outlet. The ice is always thinner here than, 

 elsewhere. 



Accurate information could not be obtained concerning the exact date of 

 freezing in 1894, but from Mr. Dolan's observations we can give an accurate 

 account of ice-formation during the fall and winter of 1895. 



The first ice of the season was observed on October 20. The temperature of 

 the air at 7 a. m. was 28°. A thin layer of ice 4 or ') feet wide had formed along 

 the edge of the lake. It melted during the day. At 7 a. m. October 30, the 

 temperature of the air was 26'^, and about one-fourth of Syracuse Lake was 

 frozen o^^er. Not ((uite all the ice melted, but it all disappeared on the fol- 

 lowing day. At 7 A. m. November 2, the temperature of the air was 22°. The 

 mill race was covered with ice three-eighths of an inch thick. Only the edge 

 of the lake was frozen, as the wind blew during llie night. On November 21, 

 the temperature of the air at 7 a. m. was 13°, and ice had formed from shore 

 to shore on Syracuse Lake; at 12 m. the ice was nearly all melted, and at 5 

 p. M. the lake was free of ice. This was the first date on which the ice ex- 

 tended entirely across the lake. On November 23, at 7 a. m., the temperature 

 of the air was 30°. Ice had formed on the mill race, but no ice formed on 

 the lake, owing to a slight wind. On November 27, the temperature of the air 

 at 7 A. M. was 16°, and a wide belt of ice had formed around the lake, but it 

 disappeared on the following day. On December 2, the nigiit was clear and 

 calm. There was no ice at 4 p. m., but at 7:30 p. m. a thin sheet of ice had 

 formed and extended apparently from shore to shore. On December 3, Syracuse 

 Lake was completely covered with ice. The temperature of the air during the 

 day was 6° at 7 A. m., 16° at 12 m. and 12° at 5 p. m. On December o, the ice was 

 2 inches thick near shore. On December 7, the ice near shore was 3f inches thick, 

 and 500 feet out from shore 1] inches thick. I visited the main lake on Decem- 

 ber 7, and the ice appeared to extend over the entire lake. Warren Colwell had 

 skated over the lake during the forenoon as far east as Ogden Point. The only 

 place where he found the lake open was a space about 20 feet square, half way 

 between Ogden Point and Black Stump Point. Three dozen ducks and mud-hens 

 had congregated in this open space. 



