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The soil, generally speaking, is abundantly rich, and adapted to the growth of the usual crops in this climate and latitude. Each of a line runnung up Root river, thence down Poplar Creek, and up the Pishtaka, the land is covered with a heavy growth of timber, among which are the following species or kinds; hard and soft maple, white birch, hickory (two kinds), white and red cedar, white and red beech, black & white walnut, white and yellow pine, tamarack, sycamore, hackberry, poplar*, balm of Gilead+, aspen+, white, red, bur, and pin oak, basswood, common and slippery elm. Several of these, as the red cedar, pines, & sycamore#, are however [only very occasionally] not very often found. West of the line above described the country consists of "oak openings" intersperced with small prairies except in the town of Oconomowoc. The oak most usual on the openings are the white oak, and the bur oak, (Quercus macrocarpa); but these species are [come] seldom mixed, and the kind of tree gives [rise to the] name to the opening; thus

X-Populus grandidentata
+ P. laevigata
+ P. tremuloides
# -Only one sycamore or buttonwood tree has been observed by the author in Wisconsin, and that was destroyed in clearing the farm of A. Sweet Esq. near Milwaukee.

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