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Lakes

On our northern border is Lake Superior, the
largest body of fresh water in the world, and on the
east is Lake Michigan, second only to Lake Superior
in magnitude, forming links in the great chain of
inland seas by which we are connected with the
"lower country" by a navigation as important for
all purposes of commerce as the Ocean itself.
Besides these immense lakes Wisconsin abounds
in those of smaller rise scattered profusely over
her whole surface. They are from one to
twenty or thirty or more miles in extent. Many
of these are the most beautiful that can be imagined, the
water deep and of crystal clearness and purity, surrounded
by sloping hills with fine rounded projecting points or
promentories covered with scattered groves and clumps
of trees. Some are of a more picturesque kind
being more rugged in their appearance with steep
rocky bluffs crowned with cedar, hemlock, spruce and