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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
reptiles were foimd common tlironghout the Maumee Elver basin, and specimens were 
noted and secured at nearly all points investigated by us. 
The following is a classified list of the waters examined: 
Manmee Eiver : 
St. Joseph River 
Fish Lake. 
Fish Creek. 
Big Run. 
Indian Lake. 
Cedar Lake. 
Cedar Creek. 
Mill Creek. 
St. Marys River. 
Gordon Creek. 
Maumee River — Continued. 
Lost Creek (near Cecil, Ohio). 
Ti£6n River. 
Devils Lake. 
Maniton Beach 
Auglaize River. 
Sugar Creek. 
Lost Creek (near Lima, Ohio). 
Blanchard River. 
Hoaglin Creek. 
Beaver Creek. 
THE MAUMEE RIVER. 
The Maumee Eiver is formed at the city of Fort Wayne, Ind., by the confluence- 
of the St. Joseph and St. Marys rivers. It flows in a general northeast direction for a 
distance of 96 miles through Paulding, Defiance, Henry, and Lucas counties, Ohio, and 
near its mouth it forms the northwest boundary of Wood County, Ohio. At Toledo it 
empties into Lake Erie through Manmee Bay. 
According to the Indiana Geological Eeport, 1878, the Maumee Eiver at Fort 
Wayne has an elevation above sea level of 737 feet, and at its mouth of 573 feet. The 
river has therefore a fall, in its total length of 96 miles, of 164 feet, or 1§ feet per mile. 
The Maumee Eiver was examined at the following places: 
(а) Fort Wa^ne, Ind., August 14 and 15: The channel at this place has been 
straightened and the old water-course has been filled up with gravel and rubbish that 
were washed in by overflows of the river. The bottom is of solid Devonian limestone. 
The banks of the channel are about 15 feet high, and are composed of whitish clay. 
The water is mostly deep, with but few shoals. Immediately below the city, where the 
measurements of the river were taken, the stream is confined in a rocky channel 33 
feet wide, and has an average depth of 3 feet and a current of 1.86 feet per second. 
Therefore the volume of water conveyed per minute was 82,863 gallons. The temper^ 
ature at the bottom of this current of water was 76°. 
The St. Marys Eiver for some distance up from its mouth has been straightened and 
the stream is now confined to a ditch-like channel which is about 40 feet wide. The 
channel of the St. Joseph Eiver has a width of about 50 feet. The St. Joseph River 
conveys somewhat the larger quantity of water. 
(б) The Maumee Eiver was fished August 16, about 24 miles above Antwerp,. 
Ohio. The channel has a width of about 250 feet, and the banks on the sides of the 
bottom lands are about 10 feet high. The bottom of the channel is of Devonian 
limestone, with numerous loose rocks scattered over it. There are long stretches of 
deep water, which are connected by short rocky riffles. Low islands in the river and 
low sloping banks are entirely covered with water willow. There are also dense 
growths of wrackweed. In water only a few inches deep the rocks as well as the 
earth bottom is covered with algie, mostly Spirogyra. Willows and horseweed form 
dense thickets along the margins of the stream. 
(c) The Maumee Eiver, near Cecil, Ohio: Prof. Seth E. Meek says that the current 
at this place is swifter than usual and that the bottom of the river is sandy, or in a 
few places rocky. 
