of areat plants i in bloom. 
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clay which I found in various. places eflervesced with acids, 
indicating calcareous ingredients. 
At the interior termination | of thividevebuistticty: thes sphere 
becomes undulating, and presents to lake Michigan, an alter- 
nation of moderately elevated hills and plains, ravines formed 
by water courses, openings and thickets, swamps = prai- 
ties, lakes and ponds. 
There are no ranges of hills that assume a oe pul tiey: of 4 
rection, but the country gradually rises to the centre of 
-chigan, attaining appar og no very great altitude above the 
— sashes lakes 
north-western part of the peninsula is broken, and bis 
been little explor ed; adjacent to lake Michigan in this sec- 
tion, sand hills conjectured to be 400 feet in bees are lo- 
cated. An undulating surface, haying a meagre 
with a few swamps, and wet nanos: Fak aba 
am : 
Small prairies occur in many parts of the country, roe 
most extensive are situatedin the southern division. The 
are a continuation of the wide verdant plains divested of tim- 
ber, so frequent in Indiana : some of them extend twenty miles 
into Michigan, with a breadth of five miles, having in places 
sandy bottoms, but generally a rich medium soil. 
A considerable proportion of the interior of Michigan is 
— oo and assumes in a state of nature, the aspect of 
@ partia! red country. A traveller may proceed in a 
through a trackless wilderness, with little i in- 
ption, ns be diversified views of handsome lakes, hil 
ains, prairies and eer: adorned by a Tich 
In the eastern part of the epee rolling int mr, Lye ia 
often of diminutive height on thinly sca oar is almost the 
only tree found on a considerable portion of the hills and dry 
surface; many small meadows and plains are entirely divest- 
ed of trees and shrubs, and, exclusive of groves on wet 
ind, aioe is scarcely Gasber sufficient for first division 
Se ok Oo enings”’ i is the descriptive appellation affix- 
ny set sregion. In the centre, and on the west- 
ern declivity ot the peninsula, hickory and bur oak lands 
are real 
The scarcity of timber ina considerble part of Michigan, 
is gee ee ag by annual pes kindled by the abo- 
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