. Book of the Royal blue . AN ATTRACTIVE COTTAGE SCENE AT WAWASEE Lake Wawasee. fOT more than three hoursride from Chicago, on themain line of the Baltimore& Ohio Railroad, is thesummer resort of Wawa-see, built on the shores ofthe lake bearing the samename. Lake Wawasee, formerly known asTurkey Lake, is located almost at the apexof a high range of hills in Northern Indiana,which marks the great water-shed betweenthe Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Gulf ofMexico, and is the most beautiful, manytimes the largest, and in altitude the high-est, of any of the lakes in the State. It isconceded to be o
. Book of the Royal blue . AN ATTRACTIVE COTTAGE SCENE AT WAWASEE Lake Wawasee. fOT more than three hoursride from Chicago, on themain line of the Baltimore& Ohio Railroad, is thesummer resort of Wawa-see, built on the shores ofthe lake bearing the samename. Lake Wawasee, formerly known asTurkey Lake, is located almost at the apexof a high range of hills in Northern Indiana,which marks the great water-shed betweenthe Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Gulf ofMexico, and is the most beautiful, manytimes the largest, and in altitude the high-est, of any of the lakes in the State. It isconceded to be one of the most picturesquelakes in the Middle West. Its elevation of three hundred feet higherthan Lake Michigan and about nine hun-dred feet above the sea-level gives it a rareand pure atmosphere. This insures coolbreezes and altogether delightful Lake has a gravelly bottom, itspure, clear water emanating from springsentirely free from weeds and mud. The lake is nine miles long and from twoto three miles wide. Its shoreline, includingindentations, is
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