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Lakes

it is some degree in taste. The difficulty of
collecting it, and its inferior quality will always
prevent its use by white men, except in cases
of extreme necessity. The Lake of the Woods and
Rainy Lake near our north boundary have been so
often described as to need only to the mentioned
here. Their thousand small wooded islands
give them a peculiarly interesting and picturesque
character not to be found in any other
scenery in the world. Among the small
lakes may be mentioned Lake Winnebago, St Croix
(Upper & Lower) Cass Lake, Lake Pepin, the Four Lakes
the Mille Lac, Ottawa, Peqaugen, Pewauha, Geneva
Green, Koshhonong - and many others all more
fully described, in another part of this work.