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Title: The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Chicago and North Western Railway Company Stennett, W. H. (William H.), 1832-1915
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Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Chicago & North-Western Railway Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ly windaround jutting bluffs,beneath whose shadesthe crystal water slum-bers, so pure and clearthat the white sand andgravel of the lake bottomcan be plainly seen at adepth of twenty totwenty-five feet. Allthe brilliant colors ofthe rainbow are reflectedon the smooth and spark-ling surface of the water,and bordered by a beau-tiful green, reflectedfrom the foliage of thehillside. As viewed fromthe elevated veranda ofMarshs Swiss Cottage,the scene is beautifulbeyond description. Thehills that surround thelake are verdant withpine, spruce, maple, bass-wood, red and white ce-dar; while wheat fields UlTllMIMIilli! FROM KENOSHA, WIS., TO ROCKFORD, ILL. Running across the northern portion of the State of Illinois and a part of Wisconsin,is a line of railroad owned by this Company, that is known as the Kenosha and Rock-ford Division. It is 40 miles long, and runs through a charming farming country. It.traverses the famous dairy district of Illinois, and its trains pass within a short distance
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116 The North and West Illustrated. of many beautiful lakes, full of fish, and surrounded by a highly cultivated country.Leaving Kenosha, we successively pass Pleasant Prairie, Woodworth, Bristol,Salem, Fox River, Bassetts, Genoa Junction, where it crosses the* Fox River Di-vision, as before related ; Hebron, Alden, Harvard, where it crosses the WisconsinDivision ; Chemung, Capron, Poplar Grove, South Caledonia, where it crossesthe Madison Division ; Argyle, and Harlem, and reach Rockford and the FreeportLine. In most of these villages are cheese and butter factories, and more or less of othermanufactures. Near Fox River are Silver and Lily lakes. Wilmot and Munster aretributary, and reached by stage. Brighton is two miles from Salem, and is reached bystage. Twin Lakes are one and a half miles from Bassetts. Alden is a strict tem-perance village, of 200 people. Parke Corners and RusseUmlle are tributary to Capron.A Scotch settlement surrounds Argyle, which was named for the Scotch duk

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