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Title: Geological report on Monroe County, Michigan
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Sherzer, W. H. (William Hittell), 1860-1932 Lane, Alfred C. (Alfred Church), 1863- Geological report on Huron County, Michigan Gordon, C. H. Geological report on Sanilac County, Michigan Michigan. Geological Survey
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: Lansing : R. Smith Printing
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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the lake he had seen an opening aslarge as a room leading into the rock and that he had entered ittwelve to fourteen feet, but that he could see some distance furtherand that it contained much mud with fish, turtles and snakes.Search was made last season for this opening but all that was foundwas a bowl shaped depression in the mud fifteen to sixteen feet indiameter and five feet deep containing about a peck of young catfish. During the past summer the bed of the outlet has been low-ered by the county so that the level of the full lake wtll be reducedfour feet, by which means many acres of marsh land on the southand east will be reclaimed. In the northern part of Sec. 15, Bed-ford township, there is a small body of water upon the ridge,known as Little Lake. At the time of Romingers survey of thisregion (1873 to 1876) this was dry and showed conspicuous rockcrevices in its bed. It has not been dry for a number of years andis not now regarded by local residents as a sink. It seems prob-
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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 117 able that the subterranean exits have become temporarily cloggedand that they may again become functional upon being cleared. Asomewhat similar case has occurred just south of the Lulu quarryin Sec. 16, of Ida township, where there is a depression coveringfive acres and about nine feet deep. This has filled each springwith water which has had to slowly evaporate. In 1896 it appearsto have found an outlet, or to have opened a former one, since itwas filled several times and each time emptied itself in three days.Just south of the Big Sink, in the N. W. i, Sec. 11, Whiteford, thereis situated a sink which has become inoperative. .Upon the placeof Daniel Kabideu there are two small sinks in the S. W. i, N. W.i, Sec. 10 of Whiteford. In Sec. 8, N. E. i, N. W. i, there are minorsinks and sink holes, into one of which a man and horse are saidto have broken through. It is very probable that there exists throughout this region aseries of underground galleries and chamb

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