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now and find pasture and places to lie down, though they had to- 

 wade through perhaps a foot of water near the hard ground from 

 which the}' started, where the water was deeper than farther out.. 



WHAT THE WATER HAS COVERED. 



Submerged Human Remains. 



Squaw Island at the present mouth of Sandusk}^ River rises- 

 two feet or a little more above mean lake level. The soil is 

 sandy and probably alluvial. Graves have been found in all 

 parts of the island including parts washed away in recent years. 

 In some of these the bones were below the present water level.. 

 On August 27, 1904, I visited this island with John Fitzgerald,, 

 keeper of the Winous Point Club House, who had often found 

 bones there. A cottonwood fifteen inches in diameter whose 

 roots had been loosened by the high water had fallen on the- 

 land the year before, and had earth still clinging to its upturned 

 roots. Imbedded in this earth I found a molar, a rib and two 

 cervical vertebra, all human, also fragments of Indian pottery. 

 All of these must have been beneath the water, probably a foot, 

 or more below the level of August, 1904. A few yards from this 

 cottonwood another had fallen from the same cause and lay 

 parallel to the first, its diameter about thirty inches. In the- 

 earth brought up by its roots Mr. Fitzgerald had seen human leg 

 bones, which before the tree was uprooted must have been below 

 the water a foot or so. That these graves on Squaw Island are 

 not very ancient may be inferred from the fact that in one of 

 them was found a silver gorget on which is engraved the lily of 

 France. This is now owned by Charles Sadler of Sandusky. 



The early French settlers about the head of the bay used to 

 bury their dead on Eagle Island, which at the time was probably 

 part of the mainland. Some thirty years ago the graves had 

 been washed out and skulls still sound and other bones in great 

 numbers lay on the beach. 



Graveyard Island where the "French" or "British in 1812"" 

 buried their dead has been almost if not completelv submerged 

 at times of ver}^ high water. 



On the north shore of the bay east of Hartshorn's dock, on 

 land owned by Mary Cook, a grave was found in 1903 close to 

 shore. There was a tradition among the old residents of the 

 peninsula that at this point an Indian burving ground had once 

 extended out where the bay is now. 



At the northeast corner of the city of Sandusky, near the 

 ship yard, copper kettles and Indian trinkets were washed out 

 bv the high water of 1858. 



