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yields this poor soil is covered in many places by a reddish sandstone, which yields a much better soil. Whenever the surface rise above the junction, the soil is good.

Indications of an ancient lake along the Baraboo valley above Reedsburgh. Babb's Prairie was doubtless the bottom of it. "Haystack" [(Sketch)] and other bluffs N.W. of Delton, showing a cap rock. Passed over the summit in a gap south of the "Haystack" and took observations for altitude &c.

July 4. Home, by way of Portage.

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Dear Mr. Lapham,

I am personally very much obliged for the map and pamphlet you have sent. Both are exceedingly interesting and useful. If every corresponding and resident honorary member would have this society's interest so much at heart, as you, there would soon be a magnificent collection between our walls.*** There is no place in the city of New York where a man could look at any state or village maps, except the Geographical Society and we are still deficient although in the possession of many hundred maps which await indexing and cataloguing. With kindest regards,

Yours very truly,

S.R. Straznicky,
Rec. Sec. Am. Geog. & Statist. Soc.

New York, July 7, 1870.

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July 11. Left Milwaukee at 2.55 P.M. via Horicon, Portage City for Baraboo.

July 12. At Baraboo. Found Wm. H. Canfield and Joseph M. Wood who went with me about 4 miles S.W. from Baraboo to see iron ore.