. Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny, Simcoe County, and adjacent parts. Prepared with a view to the identification of those villages visited and described by Champlain and the early missionaries . t they in-dicate a warmer climate at the time when they were formed a few centuriesago, and they resemble the same kinds of marl formations at the same alti-tude in Flos, which were mentioned in our description of that marl belt is more strongly pronounced in what were the bays of theancient lake. The inner rim of the Marl Belt, as shown upon the mapsthat appear h
. Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny, Simcoe County, and adjacent parts. Prepared with a view to the identification of those villages visited and described by Champlain and the early missionaries . t they in-dicate a warmer climate at the time when they were formed a few centuriesago, and they resemble the same kinds of marl formations at the same alti-tude in Flos, which were mentioned in our description of that marl belt is more strongly pronounced in what were the bays of theancient lake. The inner rim of the Marl Belt, as shown upon the mapsthat appear herewith, indicates the boundaries of a lake that existed prob-ably in the earliest Huron times. At that time the space was covered per-manently as a lake all the year round, and it is still flooded land to this 40 HURON VILLAGE SITES. No. 12 day, the lake existing for a temporary period in springtime. Its boundsextend almost to the lines of the former shore as marked at about 35 feet,and its lake-bed is silted over with mud, covering the marl deposits of earliertimes. At the present day, with the spring freshets and the resulting rise ofthe Nottawasaga, there is a flooding of this flat land along the rivers bor-. Map showing outlines of the bed of an extinct lake in Vespra and three other adjacenttownships. The small squares, marked on its shorelines, indicate fifteen Indian village sitesinhabited when water covered the area. (See also maps of Flos and Vespra.) ders, and for some distance into the lowest parts of the adjacent territory,lasting for some weeks. The space actually flooded I have estimated to be16,000 acres, or, say, 25 square miles. Outside of this, the Marl Belt, which 1906 HURON VILLAGE SITES. 41 is unflooded, might bring the total acreage of flat land up to 30,000 Sanaxord Fleming estimated in 1853 that in some seasons nearly25,000 acres are covered with water (Canadian Journal, vol. I., 1st series,p. 223). This flooding is a prolific source of litiga
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