Nos. 618-619] RESTOCKING INLAND WATERS 



Fish Planted in Lake Clear 



Upper Saranac, N. Y., (Signed) Milo F. Otis 



September 30, 1916 



Its total area was possibly twenty times the present size 

 of Lake Clear and included the present St. Regis lakes as 

 well as several others. Preceding this fossil lake there 

 was a still ranch larger lake more than twenty-five miles 

 long. The station at Lake Clear and all of the level area 

 extending north to Gabriel's Station is a small part of 

 the floor of this large lake. 



These conditions as outlined for Lake Clear in a gen- 

 eral way apply to nearly all of the Adirondack lakes and 

 ponds. Using Lake Clear as a center, there are in a 

 circle, the radius of which is fifteen miles, more than 

 seventy-five similar ponds and lakes, many of which are 

 restocked by the state, so that the following study may 



