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Bloomfield, a town laid out on the north side of Honey creek in Walworth county two miles below Troy.

Blue Mounds; two large conical hills or mounds in Iowa county twenty five miles west from Madison and twelve miles south of the Wisconsin river. Their elevation is such (the highest or eastern being one thousand feet above the Wisconsin river) that they can be seen at a distance of fifteen or twenty miles or more; and in the first explorations of the country they were very important land marks to guide the traveller in his course through the boundless prairies. The Indian name is Mu-cha-wa-ku-sin or "Smoky Mountains" appearing usually enveloped in a cloud or fog. They are composed of the same kinds of rock that underlie the "Mineral region"-and mines of lead are worked near the Eastern mound; which afford in addition to the