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Show lion as If stirred by force of an undercurrent under-current or boiling springs Tho only fish are bis-mouthed kiss and bullheads For all that the water seems to be so swampy in character it does not detract from the flavor of the llsh. probably owing to the fact of Its being of better quality in Its lower depths Nacley's lake, In Kent county, Is formed like a great horseshoe and Is about seven miles In circumference It has been rounded In one place and showed a depth of 2."i0 feeL It bis but one insignificant feeder and the natural evaporation must be considerable, consid-erable, and yet it has an outlet which flows water sufficient for power to drive a sawmill, and gristmill, proving that It is fed by heavy flowing springs that man has never seen. The water Is clear blue and cold, and the bottom is hard marl lime. New York Sun. I STRANGE LAKES OF MICHIGAN. Five thousand lakes of all sizes is the proud total claimed by the state of Michigan. Some of them are mvh- j terlous bodies having neither Inlet nor outlet, nor. so far as can be discovered dis-covered by sounding, bottom Many of the smaller lakes, according accord-ing to the Fur News, are slowly grew-Ing grew-Ing over and have wide margins of tough sod that will support the wcicht of a .man, although merely resting on water or a thin mud of unknown depth. These margins tremble to the tread and quiver lor mauy feel around when .stepped upon There are in-stance.s in-stance.s where a lake has become entirely en-tirely overgrown and for so long a period that the surface becomes solid and tbe existence of water underneath under-neath is unsuspected The Pcre Marque:te Railroad Company, Com-pany, when building a branch between be-tween Grand Rapids and Lansing, returned re-turned to the work one morning to find that several rods of roadbed had disappeared during the nlgbt and a considerable lake had taken Its) place. Thousands of feet of tlru!er aud man carloads of earth were dumped lu before be-fore botiom was fouofl nnd the road had anything but a firm foundaiion. The pressure of the (Unplaced water heaved the earth anil cracked it for some distance around, tilting largo forest trees, some of which fell Water came up through these crevices, crev-ices, bringing ejeless fish, both bass and bullheads, convincing certain former for-mer skeptics that when any organ of sense or locomotion falls Inlo disuse It degenerates and is finally lost Pro- bablv these fish were the descendants of others that hud lived in darkness for ages A small lake In Bownc township, supposed by the rural folk to be bottomless, bot-tomless, swallowed up a full half acre al one gulp n few years ago, ami where the slide took place the water is apparently as deef as ever. In the extreme western edve of lonla county there is a little lake of about three acres In area; It Is without with-out any vP-ible feeders or outlet. It Is surrounded by woods on the high land, while Hs margin i grown up to shrubs and flags and glasses peculiar to the ordinarv swamp. Thin is another of these luvsteiion? water holes, termed bottomless, one I paity having sounded If.o feet without i finding bottom The water Is r d j and unfit to drink and millions of minute particles ol vegetable mattpr I are held in buspt-nslon and are in mo-1 |