Baraboo, Dells, and Devil's lake region, with maps and illustrations . ple lead to the right, Stop right there and balance; Pass right through and balance, too, the Sugar Bowl, the Inkstand, andother delights of the Lov/er Dells. Just south of the wooded road, atno great distance fron. the cottages,a bald hill lifts itself above the sur-rounding landscape, richly rewardingone if he decides to gain its treelesscrest. Although Newport was a noisy, busyplace, crowded with adventurers seek-ing the gold at the foot of the elusiverainbow, stirred with martial music 26 BARABOO, DELLS, AND DEVILS LAKE
Baraboo, Dells, and Devil's lake region, with maps and illustrations . ple lead to the right, Stop right there and balance; Pass right through and balance, too, the Sugar Bowl, the Inkstand, andother delights of the Lov/er Dells. Just south of the wooded road, atno great distance fron. the cottages,a bald hill lifts itself above the sur-rounding landscape, richly rewardingone if he decides to gain its treelesscrest. Although Newport was a noisy, busyplace, crowded with adventurers seek-ing the gold at the foot of the elusiverainbow, stirred with martial music 26 BARABOO, DELLS, AND DEVILS LAKE REGION as the soldiers of the sixties drilledon the Vanderpool green and depart-ed for southern conflict fields, alivewith the rivermen who came andwent with the departing of each ver-nal season, the past gives an empha-sis to the stilness that broods over ittoday. No wonder summer cottagersseek the quiet here. The lingeringassociations, the pleasant pathways,the changing river, with summerclouds floating across the sky are fas-cinations not to be painted in 1 <N«^^y^iiHiflHHi3i^^n^ il^wi COLDWATER CANYON(Upper Dells.) SUGAR BOWL(Lower Dells.) CHAPTER VI Mirror Lake, Retreat of a Circusman—Earlier Bed of Dell Creek-Congress Hall Near Village At the edge of the village of Delton,ten miles north of Baraboo, on TrunkLine 12, Dell Creek once flowed un-hampered through a narrow canyonof unusual beauty. When a dam wasthrown across the slender stream, alovely lake, whose placid bosom mir-rors daily the changing verdure of itsbanks, was created, some three length. Boatmen make regulartrips on the lake, always before night-fall as the narrow course requiresexpert piloting. So quiet are thewaters that every detail of sky andshore and passing craft are reflectedtherein; often there is not a ripple,not a catspaw to mar the banks, which are high and rocky,are covered with a dense growth ofpine, cedar, hemlock and many othervarieties of timber. Underneath i
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