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The Remarkable series of hills at Rochester and along the Pishtaka and below that place, may have been the boundary of an ancient lake of great extent.
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Artesian well at the Plankinton house 140 feet deep, hard clay all the way, struck gravel from which water came to the surface.
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The following articles now in my archaeological collection-- I.A.L.
(These articles were burned in Science Hall, Madison, in 1884.-Jula A. Lapham).
1. Arrow points, spearheads, &c., of flint about 50. 2. Chips from an arrow point manufactory, 25. 3. Stone implements from Europe, 2. 4.Stone axes from America, 17. 5. Stone chisels, 10. 6.Stone hammers from Lake Superior copper mines, 1. 7. Fragments of ancient pottery, 20. 8. Flint disks, from Racine, 1. 9. Stone circular implements, 1. 10. Pipes and fragments, 7. 11. Arrow points, copper, 2. 12. Bodkin, copper, 1. 13. Knife, copper, 1. 14. Chisel, copper, 1. 15. Kettle and various ornaments from Indian grave, 5. 16. Skull of Menomonee (?) Indian, 1. 17. Brick (so-called) from Aztalan, 5. 18. Snow shoes of Chippewas, 1 pr. 19. Bow and arrows (several of them set with flint) of the Digger Indians, California. 20. Lot of Indian articles. 21. Specimens of earth from mounds, wood, bones, charcoal, &c.
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From the Daily Wisconsin, February 22, 1868.
Students in Physical Geography and Geology in Milwaukee, if there are such, will find it at the present crossing of the river at the foot of Chestnut street and Division streets, a very clear and beautiful representation modeled in ice of the way mountain chains have been elevated; the reason why they are usually steepest on the side towards the seal and how mountain valleys and metallic veins are formed; all caused by the expansion of ice during the past few days of warm weather. The main sheet of ice represents the crust of the earth resting upon the melted interior mass; the water above the ice, which one must cross upon planks, stands for the ocean; the newly formed ice above the old, gives a good idea of the nature of secondary and primitive formations. Live teachers should improve this opportunity by visiting the locality and explaining these facts to their classes.
I.A.L.
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Tribune Office, Chicago, Feb. 11, 1868.
Sir--
I have just noticed in the First volume of the Trans. Academy of Science of this city a map prepared by yourself showing the effect of the lake in modifying summer and winter temperatures. I saw it with great pleasure since it showed with singular clearness certain facts relating to the temperatures of the places on and near the lake, concerning which certain Eastern friends have of late much importuned me.
If you could inform me in what way, if any, I can secure an impression of the map in question separate from the volume of
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Transactions, I shall be under great obligations to you.
With great respect, your obedient servant,
Fred. H. Hall.
Dr. I.A. Lapham.
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Melbourne Bot. Garden, 22/5 1868.
I was exceedingly gratified, dear Mr. Lapham, to receive recently your very kind letter and the most interesting and instructive report on the proposed introduction of timber into the state of Wisconsin. In almost all your views I coincide and you and your colleagues deserve great praise for the lucid manner in which you have dealt with the questions before you.
It is quite possible that some of the hardiest Australian trees which are even now, through me, under trial in the Shetland islands, may stand your winters. But I should be better able to judge if you could give me the results of the temperature tables of your state. I will be happy to send seeds if trials could be affected.
I am very much in want of pine seeds and walnuts from any part of America for forest culture here. All these fresh and well dried before being packed would travel quite well during the 3 months voyage to Australia. Can we not institute a regular interchange in which dry plants could be included? I am very much pleased with the pretty specimen of Sulvantia sent by you.***
My museum contains 340,000 specimens of plants already from all parts of the globe.
With my regardful salutation,
[Fred?] Von Mueller.
I.A. Lapham.
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June 23. Kilbourne City, 5:20 A.M., saw 3 rafts go over the dam; 3 more soon after.
Dells are less dangerous than before the dam was built. Three pilots formerly employed at the Dells. Rafts now injured by dam not 1/10 of those formerly injured by Dells.
June 24. Having been informed many years ago that limestone existed in Towns 13 and 14, Range 7 East, where is is usually supposed that only the Potsdam sandstone could be found, I this day visited the locality, and found limestone indeed, but only in the form of boulders connected with the "Drift". These are carefully selected and calcined for the manufacture of quicklime in several places along the drift ridge lying east of Dell Prairie. This ridge is the western boundary of the region in which boulders of primitive rocks are found. These limestone boulders look much like the lower Magnesian limestone and may be traced northward through several towns to Eagle mound in Westfield where this rock is still found in place and from whence doubtless the glaciers have removed the boulders now found so abundantly in the drift.
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Madison, 27 June 1868.
Hon. I.A. Lapham, Milwaukee, Wis.,
Sir--
The Governor directs me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 25th of June, and to say in reply that he will cause the record to be kept as you suggest of the character of layers of earth and rock penetrated in sinking the artesian well in the Capitol Park.
Respectfully, Chas Fairchild, Pr secy.
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July 14. Left Milwaukee at 2 1/2 P.M. Staid over at Hartford to find about Oil well which was sunk only 40 feet and does not develop anything about the rock, shale, or thickness of the ore bed. No new facts obtained.
July 15. Went two miles down the Rubicon, found no rocks: Borrowed of Mrs. Judge Cox the meteorological table kept by her late husband. In the afternoon went to Waupun with daughter Julia, son Charles and Miss C.
The Galena limestone at Waupun has bluish layers that must not be confused with the proper "Blue Limestone" below.
July 16. At 6 P.M. went by R.R. from Waupun to Berlin. Sandstone appears to be under the soil nearly to that city.
July 17. From high lands near Berlin we can see the prominent peaks of the primitive rocks N.W. the largest is said to be Mt. Morris 30 miles away (T.19 R. R.11.)
July 18. Went (5 A.M.) per steamboat "Weston" from Berlin down the Fox river, stopping at Omro, to Oshkosh.. Visited the new High school, fine view from the top, 126 steps to the top. On the trip down the Fox we went up the Wolf river to Winneconne on the Lake of the same name. Passed through the "Big Butte des Morts Lake."
July 17. To Green Bay. J. Disturnell, author of "Influence of Climate in North America", was a fellow passenger.
July 20. Drove from Green Bay to DePere and 4 miles east to Monosese Falls over a corduroy road, where there is a bed of iron ore [and "Monosese Falls"].
My son Charles left me last night for Chicago.
July 21. At 5 A.M. my daughter and Miss C. left on the steamboat for Negaunee and Marquette [&c.] on Lake Superior. I am alone at the
