What to see in America . Load of White Pine Logs. 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 call
What to see in America . Load of White Pine Logs. 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
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