Show HOW THE DIE DIES Interesting rife Life History of Inland Water Wafer Bodies I Springfield Republican I Professor Gregory Gregor of Yale recently gave a particularly interesting lecture on The LIfe History of a Lake Professor Gregory in the course of his talk spoke of the way wa lakes are filleton filled fillet on one side and drained on the other by b rivers and nd called attention to the rapidity with which these lakes are filled by the bringing down of or sedi ment of Into lakes are quite dark but those leading away are art clear showing that I much muc has been b en left behind the Mis Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi carries yearly to the gulf over tons of oC matter swatter It would take I but a days portion of this burden to convert any an one of the many ordinary lakes into broad meadow lands Some idea of o the rapidity with which lakes lakee s die under this process is shown in iq the he fac fact that t t out of the lakes in the Swiss region have disappeared since 1873 I Lakes kes die by b either being b filled up or drained off The draining off oft results when a river has worn a gorge back so deep that the water water wa water ter all runs out The Niagara river is doing its best in this draining by b cut cutting cutting cutting ting as fine a trench as could be made by an engineer It is cutting back to toward toWa ward Wa rd I Lake ake Erie at the rate of four Cour feet teet a year and In time would kill the lake Jake lakeI I Lake LaIe ake a beautiful lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains is also one of those destined In time to be killed as a result of the draining process Peat Is one of the and ad works more rapidly than any other form of deposits It Is estimated that I on of or Ireland is peat and over of the state of Indiana was once opec a peat bog The speaker called attention to the Dismal swamp o of Florida which was once a vast lak lake but out Is now a great area of bogs and i with only a little lake in one part So rank Is the growth of this peat in that hot land that the surface I of ot tha tho tb lake Jake Is fourteen feet higher than the level leyel of the surrounding bogs showing that It has been een literally forced for ed up into the air lakes boss bogs bo S and then thea gar garden garden garden den lands represent the stages in the process of dying Filling draining and encroachment of or vegetables represents the process that kills the lakes In warmer climes while the forces of the theair theair air are agencies in the cooler portions of the country Professor Gregory Gregor closed his lecture with an interesting account of or the way the lakes have dis die disappeared disappeared appeared in the regions in the western part o or of the United States where only desert land is nor no o r found |