170 



Going east on the county line, at intervals of 160. feet, I found water 

 66, 96, 9G, and 6G feet deep. 



The lake is well stocked with fish — bass, bluegills, porch, grass-pike. 

 and others. Under much of the shallow water there is an abundance of 

 workable marl. 



TIPPECANOE LAKE, OR BIG LAKE, NOBLE COUNTY. 



This lake occupies parts of sections 28, 29, 32 and 33, Town. 33 N., 

 Range 9 east. It formerly had an area of about 400 acres, but a ditch has 

 lowered the water about 7 feet and reduced the area to about 300 acres. 



Before ditching, fully one-half the area was less than 10 feet deep. 

 There is still considerable shallow water in the southeast and southwest 

 portions of the lake, but much the greater part of the area is deep water. 

 The bluffs are low, not more than 10 to 15 feet above the water. The 

 ditching caused the destruction of a great mass of vegetation, and so 

 changed the environment of another great body of plant life that it will 

 be many years before the vegetation can adjust itself to the changed con- 

 ditions and reach a stable equilibrium. At its present level the lake can- 

 not support as much vegetation as formerly. The lake is famous for the 

 quantities of fish found in its waters, but they are not as plentiful as 

 formerly. On the southwest we found water 30, 35, 46, 47, and 36 feet 

 deep, and going northwesterly along the axis of the lake at intervals of 

 about 200 feet we found water 50, G5, 72, 65, 50 and 38 feet deep. Deeper 

 water was claimed, but we could not find it. There is considerable marl 

 in the lake bed, but it is not a workable deposit. 



GOOSE LAKE. 

 This lake is in the southwest X A, section 12, Town 32 N., Range 8 E., 

 Troy Township, Whitley County. It has an area of about 150 acres. It 

 is surrounded by considerable swamp and low land, in which are several 

 small ponds. Back of these are several morainic hills rising from 30 to 

 50 feet above the surface of the lake. The slopes of the lake bed are rather 

 steep and the water is in general quite deep. The lake has been lowered 

 about 6 feet by a ditch. This drained adjacent swamps but lessened the 

 area of the lake by only a few acres. Fishing is said to be fairly good. 

 Commencing on the south and going northerly and westerly at intervals 

 of about 100 feet we found the depth as follows : 100 feet out, 17, 20. 

 29, 30, 34, 34, 34, 37, 37, 41, 50, 54, 57, 62, 63, 62, and 61 feet; westerly, 



