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Natural History

For the scientific naturalist, the sportsman and the angler, Wisconsin affords a very interesting and highly attractive field. A large proportion of the quadrupeds of the United States have been found within her limits, and hence it would be easier to enumerate what are not found here, than to make a list of those that are. Of all the other classes of animals we have our due proportion. Several species of animals have already been compelled to leave Wisconsin by the approach of [white] civilized men; and others are driven into the remote unsettled portions where they are probably destined to remain but a short time, before they will, from the same causes, have to retire still further towards the "far west". The industrious beaver has left traces of its former existance on nearly every small brook; and horns of the elk are still occasionally found scattered over the prairies. The Buffalo has but recently been driven beyond the Mississippi. As yet

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