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La Belle Lake, or "the beautiful lake"- is the lower and largest of the Oconomowoc group of lakes, being two and a half miles long, one and a fourth wide, and occupying an area of a little more than two sections or square miles. It is six miles and a quarter around its shores. A town has been laid out at the eastern extremity of this lake called Oconomowoc; where a dam across the creek [lake] produced a water power of considerable force. The west end of the Lake is only one and a half miles from Rock River and they might be connected by a canal. The river is [twenty five] fifteen feet lower than the lake and the summit ridge is twenty five feet higher than the lake, as ascertained by leveling.

Labraugh (Beaver) Lake lies half a mile east from Pine Lake into which it discharges its waters. It is eighty three chains long, and sixty nine wide, with a circumference of three and one fourth miles, and occupying an area of four hundred and twenty three acres.

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La Belle Lake, or "the beautiful lake"- is the lower and largest of the Oconomowoc group of lakes, being two and a half miles long, one and a fourth wide, and occupying an area of a little more than two sections or square miles. It is six miles and a quarter around its shores. A town has been laid out at the eastern extremity of this lake called Oconomowoc; where a dam across the creek [lake] produced a water power of considerable force. The west end of the Lake is only one and a half miles from Rock River and they might be connected by a canal. The river is [twenty five] fifteen feet lower than the lake and the summit ridge is twenty five feet higher than the lake, as ascertained by leveling.

Labraugh (Beaver) Lake lies half a mile east from Pine Lake into which it discharges its waters. It is eighty three chains long, and sixty nine wide, with a circumference of three and one fourth miles, and occupying an area of four hundred and twenty three acres.

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