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Title: Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota : and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska Territory : made under instructions from the United States Treasury Department
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Owen, David Dale, 1807-1860 Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 Norwood, Joseph Granville. 1807-1895 Parry, Charles Christopher. 1823-1890 Pratten, Henry Shumard, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1820-1869 Whittlesey, Charles, 1808-1886 Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI Dawson, H. B., former owner. DSI Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI United States. General Land Office United States. Department of the Treasury
Subjects: Geology Paleontology Botany Botany Plants Plants Birds Birds
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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tuations on Lake Superior, but it presents one of the most agreeable andpicturesque lake scenes the tourist can well imagine. Lake Superior has, at times, not only the varied interest, but the sublimity, of a. 5 XXXIV I N T KODUCTIO N. true ocean. Its blue, cold, transparent waters, undisturbed by tides, lie, during acalm, motionless and glassy as those of any small, secluded lake, reflecting, with per-fect truth of form and colour, the inverted landscape that slopes down to its smooth,sandy beach. But when this inland sea is stirred by the rising tempest, the long-sweep of its waves, and the curling white-caps that crest its surface, give warning,not only to the light bark canoe, still much used along its shores, but also to sloopand schooner and lake steamer, to seek some sheltering haven. At such times,craft of every description may be seen running before the wind, or beating up againstit, all making for the most favourite harbour on the lake,—the sheltered bay ofMadeline Island.
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As a site for a town, and especially as a place of resort for health and pleasure,La Pointe offers advantages beyond any portion of the mainland in Wisconsin. Itssurface is sufficiently level and extensive for all purposes of agriculture ; its soil, aretentive red marl, is capable, under a proper system of tillage, of returning to thehusbandman a hundred-fold, and of producing fruits and vegetables in perfection.Its gently sloping sandy beach insures a secure footing to the bather. As afishing station, it is unrivalled. The bays and creeks of the numerous islands andmain shore, distant only a few hours run, are amongst the best fishing-grounds onthe whole lake, for trout, siscowet (Percopsis guttatus), and white-fish or lake shad(Coregonvs albus). INTRODUCTION. xxxv Tempered, as well in summer as in winter, by the vast expanse of water whichsurrounds it, and which, except at the immediate surface, is almost always at 40°Fahrenheit, its climate is milder, at once, and more equable, th

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