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Upper Wisconsin take their rise. For a distance of eighty or a hundred miles this ridge is not broken by any valley. The bluffs along the Mississippi appear to be the termini of lateral spurs of this ridge extending down between the smaller streams. Near the falls of Black river are the Iron Mountains (see page 72 of this work) and other high points. "The scenery from these high ridges (says Mr. Bronson) is the most picturesque imaginable, natural columns, pillars, towers, mounds, &c., are frequently seen varying in height from twenty to one hundred feet; their summits oval, spiral, or inclined, and with more or less perpendicular sides. They show the lime, sand, and quartz formations with which the whole country abounds." Excellent materials for mill stones are found here. On the Kickapoo river these naked knobs often assume [a] shapes resembling rudely [some] the [animal] figure of some animal or ghost, and are held in great reservation by the Indians.

The northern portion of the county is more level abounding in lakes, and streams more or less filled with wild rice.

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