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376 Dane Co.

to the Catfish and the Four Lakes are here given.

"The First Lake has a circumference of nine and a half miles and contains five square miles of surface; its longest diameter points due east and west, and is three and one eighth miles in extent; and the north and south diameter is two miles long. The water is pellucid and has a depth along the boat channel varying from seven to ten feet, excepting near the outlet where as is usual with these lakes there is a bar, over which the water is but two feet deep. The shores with but few exceptions are good; in some places they are rolling and uneven being broken by bluffs and interspersed occasionally with small marshes. The timber is scanty and of inferior quality."

The Second Lake is next above the First; its length is three and a half miles and its width nearly two miles. The water is pure and along the boat track has a depth of nine feet. On the north and east the shore is marshy with a low gravely bank intervening between the marsh and the waters edge; on the southern and western shores, the land is elevated, undulating, presenting high knobs and bluffs.