. The Vermilion iron-bearing district of Minnesota : with an atlas . as. The Ver-milion district is one in which the relief is not very great. The maximumelevation is attained by a hill in sec. 28, T. 65 N., R. 4 W., near the eastend of the district, which reaches a height of 2,120 feet above sea level, or1,518 feet above the mean level of Lake Superior, which is (3 feetabove the sea. This is one of the highest points in the State, the highesthill having a reported altitude of 2,230 feet. The lowest valley is thatoccupied by Bass wood Lake, in which the water level is 1,300 feet abovethe
. The Vermilion iron-bearing district of Minnesota : with an atlas . as. The Ver-milion district is one in which the relief is not very great. The maximumelevation is attained by a hill in sec. 28, T. 65 N., R. 4 W., near the eastend of the district, which reaches a height of 2,120 feet above sea level, or1,518 feet above the mean level of Lake Superior, which is (3 feetabove the sea. This is one of the highest points in the State, the highesthill having a reported altitude of 2,230 feet. The lowest valley is thatoccupied by Bass wood Lake, in which the water level is 1,300 feet abovethe sea, or 698 feet above Lake Superior. There is, then, a difference of 820feet between the lowest water level and the highest hill within tlie above extremes in height are found at opposite ends of the district,and, as the general slope is to the northwest, the average relief is verymuch less than 820 feet, approaching 400 or 500 feet. It is to be further Geol. ami Xat. Hist. Survey of Minnesota, Final Kept., Vol. IV, 1S99, p. 481. I S GEOLOGrCAL SURVF.
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