246 NOTES UPON FLOODS IN LAKE GEORGE. 
that in 1823 the lake was as high as it was in 1874, for it is 
stated on good authority that the trees extended some distance 
into the water, and on the margin were some that had been 
recently killed, and oe not lost their bark, — further in were 
others that looked as if they had been dead for 
description that serves exactly for 1874, Priore ‘that when I 
went along the western shore in January, 1885, looking - 
indications of recently killed trees I could see none, except 
and there, perhaps one in a mile ; a tree just on the edge of the 
1874 flo od line, or a little above - it, that was dead or half dead 
evidently from the action of the flood waters on its roots. ‘These 
saw on landing on the west side looked then as if they had been 
dead for years. It is obvious then that the 1874 flood was, but 
little if at all, higher than the previous one, and we know 
certainly that there was no flood between 1823 and 187 4, that at 
all approached these. This view is at variance with that ‘of some 
killed in 1871; but the evidence is conclusive that there have 
been dead trees round the lake ever since it was discovered, they 
are constantly mentioned by the surveyors who went at various 
times to = lake ; by Sir Thomas Mitchell in 1828, 1836, and by 
many ot and as mentioned above there were in 1823 dead 
trees that Fae looked old, and some standing in the water that 
had not even lost their ba ar r. Glover also at my request in 
1885 made a careful aneinintinns of the dead trees to see if they 
could be divided into two lots, one of which had been killed more 
_ recently than the others, but he could not do so, they all seemed 
to have been killed at the same time. The question as to the 
lasting qualities of the wood comes in here, the wood is apparently 
not of a durable kind; but the water seems to preserve it in @ 
remarkable way. As the following statement will show :—When 
at the lake in November, 1886, Mr. Glever showed me a stake 
4 ft. long, that he had pulled out of the water so - it might 
not stake his boat, he had seen the top of: it appear the water 
up, and waited until he could pull it out of the — 1 =@ 
low as at present since 187 0, and cc pre cannot have been 
