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mouth of the Wisconsin and running east along the south part of township six quite through the county; from this main ridge lateral branches extend south between the valleys of the streams, and there again have smaller spurs extending east and west. North of the main ridge the system is not so uniform and sandstone bluffs occur. The ridges are composed of limestone rock full of fissures usually running north and south or east and west; and these fissures are abundantly supplied with ores of lead and zinc [with] and occasionally [that of] copper. From the mines large fortunes have been realized by miners, smelters, merchants, and speculators,- and large fortunes have also been sunk in these limestone fissures.

These mines are usually known as "the diggings" and are distinguished by some trivial name. Thus we hear of the

[Handwritten Table of Names of Diggings and Ranges].