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inundated by the waters of the White and the Wabash when these 
streams are very high. In Decker Township there are three groups of 
hills, which are far above high water, viz., the Dicksburg and Claypole 
and a group of limestone hills along the Wabash River above the Govern- 
ment locks. Many farms in the interior are also above the level of the 
overflow. 
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In examining the swamps, comparatively little cypress is now found 
standing, though many of them are still heavily timbered with oaks and 
many other of our common forest trees. Nearly all the cypress of value 
as timber had been cut out in every swamp visited. In Johnson Town- 
ship (see Map) cypress was found to have been distributed over the area 
indicated. The territory is all very low, some of it boggy, though little 
water stands in the places indicated as ponds during the dry seasons, 
since the country has been partially ditched. 
