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present shore, according to J. W. Lockwood, who found them so 

 close together as to make it difficult to steer a scow among them. 

 Later J. G. Yeckley, who lives near, confirmed the statement 

 that trunks with roots attached extend out half a mile from the 

 present shore. He took from the water some five hundred trees 

 still quite sound, using them for posts. They were mostly oak 

 and hickory, though others got out a few of walnut. The main 

 object in removing the timber was to clear the bottom so as to 

 permit the hauling of seines. He spent parts of three 3^ears in 

 this work. 



In the marshes east of Sandusky I found in March, 1898, a 

 number of prostrate trunks with roots extending down some 

 distance so that I thought they must have grown there before 

 the land had been converted into a marsh. A number of these 

 were sixty rods or more from the present shore of the marsh. 

 From the shallower part of the marsh nearer shore I was informed 

 that in a dry season hundreds of walnut trunks had been removed 

 for timber, and that a number of walnut stumps were still stand- 

 ing where the ground was too wet for trees of that kind. 



"In tracing the west line of Huron Township across the 

 marsh in 1885 it was found that the original survey made about 

 1810, referred to trees standing at different places where for 

 many years past has been only marsh." — Ed. Hinde. 



Hunters in pushing their skiffs through the marsh often 

 strike submerged timber with their setting poles. Besides wal- 

 nut I found basswood, cedar, pine, beech, and sassafras, but it 

 is not certain that all of these grew near where they now lie. 

 Planks have been found two or three feet below the surface of 

 the marsh. The floods of 1858-'61 carried not only these but 

 many trees that had been uprooted. All that had been growing 

 on Cedar Point between the Carrying Ground and the vicintiy of 

 Rye Beach were swept off into the marsh. These have perhaps 

 all rotted since, but others of kinds more enduring that grew 

 along the Huron River or other streams may have been carried 

 into the lake by the freshets of that time and washed over the 

 Cedar Point bar by the northeast storms. 



Cedar stumps still standing where the trees grew have been 

 found in several places about the ba}', their roots and in sorae 

 instances their tops below the water level. Sept. 11, 1904, the 

 high water of the summer having washed away a portion of 

 Rosebush Point (near the end of Cedar Point) I noticed a num- 

 ber of stumps, cedars and others, with roots at or below water 

 level. A root of one of the cedars was fourteen feet long. Nov. 

 19 when I was on another part of Cedar Point the dredge at work 

 near the south end of the lagoon between ridges No. 2 and 3 



