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The Third Lake is intermediate in size as well as position between the Second and Fourth Lakes, being three and a half miles long, and occupying an area of about six square miles. Its waters are very clear and about ten feet deep; the banks are high and undulating, bearing a scattered growth of burr oak and white oak trees. Madison is on the north shore of this lake occupying the narrow strip of land between it and the next.

Fourth Lake is the uppermost and largest of the Four Lakes: it has a periphery of nineteen and one fourth miles and covers an area of fifteen and sixty five hundredths square miles. Its longest diameter bears due east and west, and is six miles in length; and the transverse diameter is four miles long. The water is cold and pure and of a depth sufficient for all the purposes of navigation by small steamboats: supposed to be from fifty to seventy feet at some places. "The land bordering upon it is hilly, undulating and in many places broken. On the north side it is well timbered, chiefly with hard wood, and lime and silicious stone are found in abundance; the quality thereof however, has not been

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