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CortTEX CELLS OF THE Mouse’s BRAIN. 
By D. M. DENNIs. 
Tue PuysicAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE REGION OF THE GREAT 
BEND OF THE WABASH. 
By Witiram A. McBETH. 
The region here considered embraces most of the area of Tippecanoe, 
the north half of Fountain and Montgomery and the southeastern border 
of Warren counties, lying in that part of Indiana where the Wabash 
River, after traversing the State nearly its entire width, turns abruptly 
to the south, which direction it follows through the remainder of its 
course. 
The area embraces some of the most beautiful and fertile country in 
the State. Much the greater part is prairie, not continuous but divided by 
gentle ridges, usually timbered, into smaller sections locally named as 
Osborne’s Prairie in western Fountain County, Shawnee, Twelve Mile, 
Six Mile and Potato Creek prairies further east, and north of these Wea 
Plains and Wild Cat prairies. 
The- main water-shed has a northward slope from northern Mont- 
gomery County to the Wabash, the main drainage line of the region. 
The slope rises rapidly to the east from the eastern side of the South Fork 
of Wild Cat Creek, and the country becomes distinctly a timbered region 
with clay soil. The southern divide is also a clay and naturally heavily 
timbered region, with a few narrow re-entrant strips of prairie. The 
country is diversified by several ridges and a great number of small gravel 
hills or mounds. The country to the north of the Wabash to a distance of 
from two to six miles from the river is a clay country, much of it still 
heavily timbered and very much broken by the knobs and basins charac- 
teristic of moraine topography. The country bordering the region on the 
south has this characteristic topography but of a more subdued type. 
Subordinate to these are several ridges, the relation of which to the others 
is not in every case clearly apparent. One of these extends almost due 
east from the town of West Point, Tippecanoe County, a distance of 
twelve miles, where it bends southeast and extends to the southeast 
