The emigrant's hand book, and guide to Wisconsin

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denominated " rolling." This plain lies at an elevation of from six lo fifteen hundred feet above the level of the ocean. The highest lands are those forming the dividing ridge between the waters of Lake Superior and the Mis¬ sissippi. From this ridge there is a gradual descent tow¬ ards the south and south-west. This inclination is inter¬ rupted in the region of the lower Wisconsin and Neenah. rivers, where is found another ridge extending across the State, from which proceeds another gently descending slope, drained mostly by the waters of Rock river and its branches.
These slopes indicate, and are occasioned by th,e dip or inclination of the rocky strata beneath the soil. The Wisconsin hills and many of the bluffs along the Missis¬ sippi river often attain the height of three hundred feet above their base. The country immediately bordering on Lake Superior has a very abrupt descent towards the lake; hence the streams entering that lake are full of rapids and waterfalls, being comparatively worthless for all purposes of navigation, but affbrding a vast supera¬ bundance of water power, which may at some future time be brought into requisition to manufacture lumber from the immense quantities of pine trees with which this part of the State abounds. On the 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 pur¬ poses of commerce as the ocean itself. Besides these im¬ mense lakes, Wisconsin abounds in those of smaller size, scattered profusely over her whole surface- They are from one to twenty or thirty miles in extent; many of them are themost beautiful that can be imagined; the water deep