NOTES UPON FLOODS IN LAKE GEORGE. 251° 
1885.—18th February, 1885, lake register started, lake level 
found to be 11 ft. 11 in. below 1874 flood, and the lake 12 
feet deep, at deepest place. 
1886.—Lake register shows a fall to 31st December, of 19 inches. 
Lake 10 feet 5 inches dee eep. 
1887.—9th January, 1887, lake 9 feet deep, by Mr. Glover's 
sounding, having fallen by register 1 feet 5 inches. 
Particulars of these recent measures will be found in an 
earlier page. 
For the valuable map of Lake George which accompanies this 
paper I am indebted to the Surveyor-General, and to Mr. Furber, 
for the very great trouble he has taken to search out every 
available particular about the lake to be found in old surveys. 
is carefully made to scale, and wherever possible it 
shows the —— from the old surveys, points in the history ; 
which are very great importance because of their accuracy, 
more than 20 miles long, with a depth at least double of our 
greatest record. The proof of this is to be found in the ge 
thrown up by it, the extent of flat land at both ends, and the 
unmistakable relics of great floods. 
The section of part of the base line showing the various water 
levels and dates has been made from all the available data, and 
is convenient for Laem showing the relation between the water 
at various On and a point, “which is the southern terminal 
of the ine. I bishin. in the absence of complete sounding of 
the lake, ion obliged to assume that the deepest point found by 
Mr. Glover is the — of the lake; but there can be little 
doubt that this is so, and in any case the real datum is the base 
terminal, Mr. cers levelling and sounding are shown in the 
section of the lake, but it must be borne in mind that the 
sounding extended 1 mile into each end of the lake, and about 1 
e in the middle. The lake bed is, however, so even in its 
inclination that the section may be taken as correct. 
. Licensed-Surveyor T. Russell says, “In August, 1871, I- 
went with Mr. Surveyor Betts frequently about Lake George in a 
about the lake with a view of finding the deepest part of it ; 
the central parts varied in depth from 16 to 19 feet; 19 feet was 
the deepest place we could find after sounding it nearly all over. 
I was surprised at this, for I had the impression that it was much 
This work shows the necessity for complete soundings of the 
