Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1895 — Indiana's Thousand Lakes, [ARTICLE]

Indiana's Thousand Lakes,

Brooklyn Eagle. “New Yorkers rejoice in tbeii Thousand Islands,but Indiana boasts of her thousand lakes.” Is thal sentence justified, in fact, in tht State of Indiana? Answer—A dispatch in one of tht morning papers not very long age was, perhaps, the foundation upor which the author of the sentence quoted built his assertion in regard to Indiana's 1,000 lakes. From thal dispatch it appears that “huddled together in the northeastern cornet of Indiana are more than 1,000 natural lakes, ranging in size from ten to one hundred acres. They are al, within the boundaries of Steuben, DeKalb, Lagrange, Noble and Kos ciusko counties, 312 of them being ic Noble county alone. Such is Ihe isolation of this extraordinary grouf of lakes that the average Indiana citizen, outside of the small area iu which the system is situated, is unaware of its existence. It is entirely separate from the river system oi Indiana and corresponds in character with that famous group of lakei in Orange and Sullivan counties, N. Y., and Wayne and Pike counties, Pa. —literally great springs of crystal water, with bottoms of tht whitest sand. The wild charm o! mountain environment that is tht characteristic of their eastern coun terparts is lacking, however, in th( Indiana lakes, although they occupy the highest situation in Indiana. Nowhere else in Indiana is there ? lake of any size whatever. These sheets of water are the natural homes of the small mouth black bass, and ex-Fish Commissioner Dennis, of Indiana, declares that the small mouth black bass that inhabit th* waters of every part of the country came from that group of lakes.”

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