Human Occupance of the St. Clair Delta

T nHE St. Clair delta is somewhat of an anomaly both as to its physical nature and its occupance by man. It is typical in form and structure, but instead of being located at the mouth of a silt-laden stream with occasional floods, it is in a small lake at the outlet of a strait only 40 miles long, and flows from a great lake. The variation in mean water level is only 18 inches annually. In its occupance by man one portion is devoted to the permanent homes of 1,000 backward Indian people, and another part is used mainly as a summer resort by white men who know little of the lives of the Indians, and whose numbers vary from a mere 200 in winter to considerably more than 6,000 in summer (Figure 1)

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