256 NOTES UPON FLOODS IN LAKE GEORGE, 
has not been dry, though it fluctuated very much, two-thirds dry 
1858-59 and 1860. 1861 to 1866 slightly increasing until it 
attained about half its present area. 1866-67-68 drying until it 
was not more than 2 feet in average depth (4 feet deepest), and 
one-third of its present area, increasing slightly until April, 1870, 
when the average depth was about 5 feet (7 feet at deepest), and 
the area about 15 miles by 6. From that time, viz., April, 1870, 
it continued to increase rapidly—that is for Lake George—until _ 
August, 1874, when it attained about 6 inches higher than its 
present level, with but very little less than its present area. It 
then began to recede, and between that time and April of 1875 
it had evaporated to the extent of 2 feet 9 inches in depth; but 
by October in the same year the water had increased to a height of 
2 feet 6 inches higher, or above any mark attained since the country 
was inhabited by white men ; or, to speak more accurately, since the 
lake was known to them. It is now down more than 3 feet from 
authentic.” 
Mr. J. F. nny, of Kenny’s Point, says, under date 18th 
August, 1876: “I do not think there is any disparity between my 
statement and that of Sir T. Mitchell, viz., that the lake was in 
October, 1836 ‘a grassy meadow.’ As the lake receded, a herb, 
known familiarly as Fat-hen, and other salsolaceous herbs of @ 
creeping habit sprung up, the former in some places attaining ® 
height of 6 feet, which to a casual observer on a level with the 
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properly be called a grassy meadow until about two years — 
previously to the time when it began to fill in 1852, at which time 
only could it have been said to be fairly grassed over. Mr. Styles 
d a property at Gundaroo, and it is probable that visiting that 
place from his Bungonia property, he crossed the lake from 
Kenny’s Point and received the impression that it was wholly 
dry. ere can be no doubt the survey in 1828 was correct, a 
as my statement of the length and breadth is only an estimate, 20 
conclusion can be drawn from any disparity between that and the 
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