Excerpt from Flora of Lake Quinsigamond: Annual Reports of the Worcester Natural History Society, October, 1900

Lake Quinsigamond, which is situated near Worcester, is one of the largest lakes in Massachusetts, and is about six miles long, hardly exceeding one-half mile in width, although in many places it is from fifty to one hundred feet or more in depth. It runs in a northerly and southerly direction along the edge of one of the geological dividing lines of the State which separates the central highlands from the less elevated areas of our seaboard. The immediate surroundings of the lake consist geologically of sand and gravel and probably the greater portion of the basin itself is made up of this material, over which there is spread a considerable mass of decomposed matter the results of centuries of vegetable and animal decay.

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