What to see in America . Beside the Mississippi XXVII Wisconsin Wisconsin, as a whole, is famous as a summer resort. It hasbeen called the Playground of the Middle West. Itsname is of Indian derivation and means Wild RushingChannel, which indicates the character of many of itsstreams. The surface consists chiefly of a great plainwithout mountains, but abounding in hills. The highestpoint in the state is Rib Hill, near Wausau, with an altitudeof 1940 feet. Much of the southern part of Wisconsin wasoriginally prairie that had here and there patches of timbercommonly called oak openings, the tree
What to see in America . Beside the Mississippi XXVII Wisconsin Wisconsin, as a whole, is famous as a summer resort. It hasbeen called the Playground of the Middle West. Itsname is of Indian derivation and means Wild RushingChannel, which indicates the character of many of itsstreams. The surface consists chiefly of a great plainwithout mountains, but abounding in hills. The highestpoint in the state is Rib Hill, near Wausau, with an altitudeof 1940 feet. Much of the southern part of Wisconsin wasoriginally prairie that had here and there patches of timbercommonly called oak openings, the trees being nearly allbur oaks. The Mound Builders were ancient inhabitants of thestate, and they have left a variety of their strange earth-works in the east and south sections to arouse the wonderand curiosity of the people of the present. Many of these 254 Wisconsin 255. White Water Falls below the Horse Race earthworks areeffigy moundsthat have theform of animals,usually in groupsand of giganticsize. Among theanimals repre-sented are buf-falo, moose, deer,fox, wolf, pan-ther, and panthershave tails three hundred and fifty feet long, and there areeagles which measure one thousand feet from tip to tip oftheir outspread wings. Such mounds were probably objectsof worship as guardians of the villages. The first permanent settlement in the state was begun bya Canadian family at Green Bay in 1750. The body ofwater from which the town takes its name is a wide inreachfrom Lake iMichigan. La Salle visited the bay in 1679with his little fifty-ton Griff on y the first vessel that eversailed on the Great Lakes. He collected a cargo of furs,and the Griffon was dispatched with | them to Niagara. ^ She was never heardof again. La Salleand such compan-ions as remainedwith him voyagedsouthward in fourcanoes, exploring the Wisconsin shore. State House at Mad
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