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Later than 1864 John Steible used to tie his boat to large 

 stumps in the lake about where Remington's cottonwood stood. 

 He remembers a three-foot cottonwood that stood a short dis- 

 tance southeast of the Carrying Ground and a few other large 

 ones near it but no large trees of any sort on other parts of the 

 bar. 



Openings Through The Bar. 



At times of very high water openings have been made 

 through the bar deep enough for the passage of fishing boats. 

 According to Jacob Barker there was an opening in 1838 at what 

 he called the lower carrying ground at or near the mouth of the 

 Black Channel. The high water of 1858-'60 raised by northeast 

 gales washed over the bar throughout its whole length. About 

 1858 Palmer Jackson witnessed the rapid enlargement of an 

 opening at the Carrying Ground. When first seen it was about 

 ten feet wide, but in half an hour had widened to twenty rods 

 and later to more than a quarter of a mile. Many willows and 

 other bushes were swept away. In the spring of 1859 the high 

 water cut through the bar about 23^ miles from Rye Beach, i. e., 

 a few rods west of the east line of section 4 of Huron Township. 

 Allen Remington remembers this as being open all that season. 

 James Galloway thinks it remained open four or five years. He 

 says it was about thirty feet wide at the top and deep enough in 

 the deepest part for a pound boat. The correctness of the loca- 

 tion as given by him is confirmed b}'' the fact that near the spot 

 he assigns I found in the marsh several rods from the bar so 

 much sand mingled with the muck as to prevent pushing an 

 auger through it. Captain Steible recalls an opening at or near 

 the same place about 1 867-' 69 though it was not open for about 

 three years after he began going there, i. e., 1864. On the lake 

 side it was choked with sand and re-opened a number of times. 

 The Clarks who used to haul their fish along the beach to Huron 

 were prevented for some time by this opening. He has seen the 

 water go over the bar for its entire length. He built a break- 

 water to prevent his fishing shanty located on about the highest 

 ground from being washed away. The water covered the floor 

 of the shanty a number of times. He says the bar is higher now 

 in many places than it was then. 



About 1876 or 1878, also years of high water, an opening 

 was made through the bar near the southeast end of the Carry- 

 ing Ground. Through this Jacob, Henry and John Lay, who had 

 nets in the lake, passed several times with a pound boat. It 

 was formed by a severe northeast storm in the spring, the water 

 going over the bar for a mile or more. It remained open at least 



