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and variety as to show that a forest was once there, 

 but in the deeper water they are also abundant and are 

 often struck by the pole of a hunter pushing his boat 

 through the marsh. When in a very dry season, the 

 ditch was dug through the marsh in order to float 

 boats from the club house out to open water, logs of 

 sassafras with the roots on, and a cedar with branches 

 were found at the bottom, i. e. 3 or 4 feet below the 

 present lake level. Even in the deeper parts a few logs 

 are still to be seen partly above the water, having been 

 supported by roots, or roots and branches until the 

 marsh had grown up under them. A cedar out about 

 60 rods from land where the muck is five feet deep, has 

 roots extending down into it at least three feet. It is 

 17 inches in diameter, and has about 60 rings. A pine 

 log two feet in diameter and with 91 rings lies where 

 the muck is over six feet deep. It has roots running 

 down some distance and 30 years ago was not yet 

 prostrate but the other end stuck up as much as seven 

 feet above the water, and formed a landmark for fish- 

 ermen. This is out about 80 rods from the present 

 shore of the marsh. A walnut tree that forks into two 

 huge and crooked branches whose ends are buried in 

 the muck must have grown near where it lies, but this 

 also, though a mile or more from the pine log, is some 

 80 rods out from shore, and the water at this place is 

 now seven feet deep. It is still 23 inches in diameter 

 and probably required nearly two centuries to grow. 

 Observations on these trees were made March 5th and 

 6th, 1898, when the readings of the water gauge at 

 Cleveland show the lake to have been 3^2 feet lower 

 than the high water mark. During the life of these 

 trees the lake must have been at least eight feet lower 

 than it has been during much of the time for the last 

 forty years. 



A great quantity of submerged timber still retaining 

 roots and branches was removed from the water in 



