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Topography

The soil is said to be of excellent quality, and is covered with dense forests- no openings or prairies being found of any considerable extent in the county. A singular feature in the topography of the country is indicated by the course of the principal streams which have a general south-easterly direction towards Lake Michigan, except the Neenah, which with Green Bay (an enlarged continuation of it) runs at right angles to this course and nearly parallel with the general course of the Lake. The cause of this feature may be found in a rocky ridge extending along the east side of the Neenah, giving direction to that river, and "heading" all those that take their rise most of it. This ridge extends south west quite through the Territory, and from it originates another system of stems rising east or south east into Lake Michigan,

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