. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . is PetenwellPeak, an oval mass of rock, 900 feet long by 300wide and 200 high, and from which commandingviews can be obtained. About 70 feet of the upperp
. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . is PetenwellPeak, an oval mass of rock, 900 feet long by 300wide and 200 high, and from which commandingviews can be obtained. About 70 feet of the upperportion of this rock is cut and split into fantasticshapes, many of the fragments resembling castles,towers and turrets. A few miles from this rock isFortification Rock, which rises perpendicularlyseveral hundred feet. At The Dalles this river iscompressed for five or six miles between red sand-stone bluffs, averaging over 100 feet in height. The principal lakes are Lake Winnebago, in thesoutheastern portion of the State—this lake is about30 miles long and 10 miles wide, and communicateswith Green Bay (an arm of Lake Michigan) throughFox or Neenah river—Horicon Lake, Devils Lake,Lake Koshkonong, Lake Geneva, Lake Zurich, andthe four lakes around Madison; thsse are the largerlakes of this lake-studded State. Along all therivers of the State, and at their heads, hundredsof little lakes are found, like gems glittering in Ishpemlng, Mich.—Its Hotel—page 71, Sharon, 71 miles from Chicago. The first stationwe reach after crossing the State line is Sharon, avillage of 2,000 people, in Walworth county. Alocal history says: Sharon village and townshipare situated in the extreme southeast portion of thecounty, on the Chicago & North-Western township contains two villages, Sharon andAllens Grove, on the Western Union Railroad. Theland is all valuable, there being no lakes or business of Sharon village is in a thriving andhealthful condition. The
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