File:Wisconsin and its resources; with lake Superior, its commerce and navigation. Including a trip up the Mississippi, and a canoe voyage on the St.Croix and Brulé rivers to lake Superior. To which are (14574467110).jpg

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Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Ritchie, James S
Subjects: Wisconsin Superior, Lake
Publisher: Philadelphia : C. Desilver Chicago, Keen & Lee
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ted States, and now presentsmore attractions to the settler than any part of our extendeddomain. A healthier region does not exist; here the common dis-eases of mankind are comparatively unknown. The light-ness of the atmosphere has a most invigorating effect uponthe spirits, and the breast of the invalid swells with newemotions when he inhales its healthy breezes, as they sweepacross the lake. The subjoined observations were made bythe Army Surgeons stationed at Fort Wilkins, CopperHarbor, in Lat. 4t° 2? N. Mean Annual Temperature 41° 4 Mean Temperature of the Summer 61° 4 Mean Temperature of the Winter 21° 1 Dr. Owen says:—The health, even of the moremarshyportions of this district, seems better than, from itsappearance, one might expect. The long bracing wintersof these northern latitudes exclude many of the diseaseswhich, under the prolonged heat of a more southern cli-mate, the miasm of the swamp engenders. At the Pem-bina settlement (in latitude 49°), owned by the Hudsons
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CLIMATE. 181 Bay Company, to a population of five thousand, there wasbut a single physician, and he told me, that without anadditional salary allowed him by the Company, the diseasesof the settlement would not afford him a living. None of the American Lakes can compare with LakeSuperior in healthfulness of climate during the summermonths, and there is no place so well calculated to restorethe health of an invalid, who has suffered from the de-pressing miasms of the fever-breeding soil of the South-western States. This opinion is fast gaining ground amongmedical men, who are now recommending to their patientsthe healthful climate of this favored lake, in preference tosending them to die in enervating southern latitudes. The waters of this vast inland sea, covering an area ofover 32,000 miles, exercise a powerful influence in modi-fying the two extremes of heat and cold. The uniformityof temperature thus produced is highly favorable to animaland vegetable life. The most delicate fruits

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