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The National Democrat
Cassopolis, MI
Wednesday, 26 September 1866

         A Lake With a Hole in the Bottom -
         
         Ottawa Lake, in Monroe county, Michigan, is about
       two miles long, half a mile wide, and when full is
       40 feet deep in the deepest part. It discharges a
       large amount of water in the spring through its out-
       let, which forms the north branch of Ottawa Creek at
       Sylvania.
         This lake has been nearly dry three or four times
       within the last 30 years. At such times a whirlpool
       is seen in the center, into which cakes of ice and
       other floating articles are drawn and disappear; 
       and if you are near enough, you will hear the roar
       of the waterfall. In the winter of 1862 - 3 the ice
       over where the whirlpool is when the water is low,
       was broken, and cakes of it thrown on the other ice
       by air escaping from below, and the lake settled
       about 5 inches in 12 hours.
       
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