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coarse kind; and it is more easily penetrated by heat in the manufacture of lime, in consequence of these cavities. The line made from it, is very pure and white.

There are thirteen post offices now established in this county- at Delafield, Greenfield, Kewaunee, Menoonee Falls, Milwaukee, Muskego, Mequanigo, New Berlin, Oak Creek, Prairieville, St. Maries, Summit, and Vernon.

Besides Milwaukee, the county seat, there are several smaller villages in the county-the principal of which are Prairieville, Mequanigo, Summit, Delafield, Oconomowoc, Oak Creek &c.