ls about 50 feet here, furnishing considerable
water-power. There are sandstone quarries about the town. The chief
manufactures of the city are automobile supplies, telephones, electric
apparatus, flour, feed, canned goods, machine parts and iron pipe; the
annual output is valued at about $10,000,000. Eight miles to the
southwest is Oberlin (Pop. 5,000), the seat of Oberlin College.

704 M. SANDUSKY, Pop. 22,897. (Train 3 passes 1:35a; No. 41, 6:12a; No.
25, 4:44a; No. 19, 9:55a. Eastbound: No. 6 passes 5:38p; No. 26, 7:13p;
No. 16, 9:45p; No. 22, 1:16a.)

English traders visited Sandusky Bay, upon which the city of Sandusky is
situated, as early as 1748, and by 1763 a fort had been erected for
protection against the French and Indians. On May 16th of that year,
during the Pontiac rising, the Wyandot Indians burned the fort. A
permanent settlement was established in 1817.

At the entrance to Sandusky Bay is Cedar Point, with a beach for
bathing. This is an attractive summer resort. Outside Sandusky Bay are a
number of islands, most of which belong to Ohio, but the largest, Point
Pelee, is British. At the mouth of the harbour is Johnson's Island,
where many Confederate prisoners were confined during the Civil War.
There is a soldiers' and sailors' home here with accommodations for
1,600 persons. A few miles farther north are several fishing resorts,
among them Lakeside and Put-in-Bay (South Bass Island), where the
government maintains a fish hatchery. Out of this bay Oliver Hazard
Perry and his fleet sailed on the morning of Sept. 10, 1813, for the
battle of Lake Erie.

Having worked up in the U.S. Navy from midshipman to captain
during which time he saw service against the Barbary pirates,
Capt. Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819) was at the beginning of the
War of 1812 placed in command of a flotilla at Newport, but soon
transferred to the lakes. There, with the help of a strong
detachment of officers and men from the Atlantic coast, he
equipped a squadron of a brig, six schooners, and a sloop. In
July 1813 he concentrated the Lake Erie fleet at Presque Isle
(now Erie). In Aug. he took his squadron to Put-in-Bay, in South
Bass Island.

On Sept. 10, Perry met the British squadron, under Capt. Barclay
off Amherstburg, Ont., in the Battle of Lake Erie. Capt. Barclay,
after a hot engagement in which Perry's flagship, the "Lawrence,"
was so severely shattered that