Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns; being a history and guide to places of scenic beauty and historical note .. . the riparian current is augmented fromthe old lake level. Explorers, with proper appli-ances, will find within the cavern a field for romanticadventure and curious observation. The grotto opensin the upper magnesian limestone, beneath which astratum of sandstone has been reached, and the actionof the water cannot have failed to shape vast halls,which imagination may people with gnomes, fairiesand dwarfs, sufficient for unnumbered nursery sto-ries. The entrance is obstructed
Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns; being a history and guide to places of scenic beauty and historical note .. . the riparian current is augmented fromthe old lake level. Explorers, with proper appli-ances, will find within the cavern a field for romanticadventure and curious observation. The grotto opensin the upper magnesian limestone, beneath which astratum of sandstone has been reached, and the actionof the water cannot have failed to shape vast halls,which imagination may people with gnomes, fairiesand dwarfs, sufficient for unnumbered nursery sto-ries. The entrance is obstructed by debris, but fournarrow passages remain; within, is a succession ofchambers, ornamented by stalactite and stalagmite,that glisten in fantastic shapes when torches are in-troduced. Yoices of visitors can be heard distinctlyon the ground overhead, the roof is in some partsmuch attenuated. After a storm, when the watershave been dammed back from underground fissures,the air escaping, roars like a steam whistle. It isprobable that fossil remains may be found in themany storied cavern, sufficient to fill our HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. Dane county is situated about the center of the state runningeast and west, or midway between Lake Michigan and the Missis-sippi river, about twenty-four miles north of the southern line of thisstate and Illinois. In the north it is bounded by Columbia and Saukcounties, on the south by Rock and Green, on the east by Dodgeand Jefferson, and on the west by Iowa, the Wisconsm river cross-ing the northwest corner, dividing it from Sauk. This river hasits source in the Lac Vieux Desert, on the Michigan state boundary,runs south to Portage, thence west to the Mississippi river, almostequally dividing our state, and draining in its course an area of11,900 square miles. The county is forty-two miles from east towest, thirty miles from north to south, with an area of 1,235 squaremiles, thirty-five of which is covered with water of the lakes. Thereare
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