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First Lake, the lowest and smallest of the series of "Four Lakes", in Dane County. Captain Gram says that "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 intersperced occasionally with small marshes. The timber is scanty and of inferior quality."