Show A LAKE avick A HOLE hone IN LN TIM THE ottawa lake iru whiteford mo mon roe roo county michl michigan an is about two miles long and a hafif half a mile wide and about forty feet deep when full in the deepest part it discharges a large amount 1 of water in the spring through its outlet which forms the tho north branch tf of the otowa ottawa creek crock at aft sylvania this lake has been nearly dry three or four times within the tho last thirty years at such times a whirlpool is seen in tho the center into which caked of ico lee and other floating articles are drawn and disappear and if you are near this whirlpool you will hear the roar of the waterfall in the winter of 1862 3 the tho ice ico over where the whirlpool is when the water is low was broken and cad cakes desm of it thrown on the other ice by air escaping from below and the lake lahe settled Bett sett ledl about five inches in twelve houns hours samuel stacy and others lako lake at the time and some boys W were er C skating near the very spot when the tho bursting ap up of t the he iee ice 1 cc oc occurred C burred T thore there h or a c iss iff an abundance of fish in tho the lako lake and some pike piko havo have recently been caughe weighing fourteen pounds the most I 1 mysterious part ortho tho the mystery erf err f is the tile throwing up of me tho ice |