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Cade
1957
General Account
28 July Pitt Point
Federal Electric puts out a monthly
"news" magazine on the decolore -
"Sleutine Polar Echoes," The Sleutine
Dept., Federal Electric Corp. Route
17, Lodi, New Jersey. Editor: John
P. Pynch, -100 some good info & pictures,
29 July Pitt Point
0820 out to T1, then over to T2
and following along the west reed
covered lake at 0900 paralleling the
Long Road - down to the river. The
lake bed is most interesting vegetatively
as it is still in a very early reed
stage - with mostly pioneer forbs
and grasses occurring. Apparently the
lower end of the lake was enclosed
by river action, with melting of an
ice lens, anyway there is a narrow
break in a 15-20 foot slide at
deep end of lake and all the water
draining into the river. Hard to tell
how long ago this was but it is
relatively recent as far as vegetation
is concerned. There were signs of recent
farming activity all over the lake bed,
even though the ground is only ca 50%
covered by vegetation. Polypurification of