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Wingra, a small lake in Dane County lying south of the Fourth, and west of the Third Lake.

Wingville (Parish's) a post office and village in Grant County on the main Ridge road near the line between that county and Iowa, forty miles from Prairie du Chien, on the head of Blue river. [Flinty] Limestone is here found, and also a stone suitable for building and easily dressed.

Winnebago (Lake) a beautiful sheet of water lying between Calumet and Winnebago Counties, and constituting a part of the Neenah river. It is twenty eight miles long and ten miles wide in its greatest dimensions, and caresses an area of two hundred and twelve square miles. "Its water is hard and when not violently agitated is quite pellucid, but becomes turbid during long and severe blows, and has a depth sufficient for the purposes of navigation. On the northern shore [extremity] [of] the shore is low having a narrow sandy beach for an extent of about eight miles.