THE GEOUKiY OF MIXNE8OTA. 



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\dfnrtil <lnn>iu<iv. The northwest part of Cottonwood county, includ- 

 ing Germantown. Highwater, Ann. Westbrook, Storden, northwestern Ani- 

 hoy, and most of Ko.se Hill, is drained to the Cottonwood river, which Hows 

 through southern Redwood county, only a few miles farther north, and 

 enters this county for a short distance in the northeast corner of German- 

 town. Its tributaries from Cottonwood county, in their order from west to 

 east, are Dutch Charley's. Highwater. Dry and Mound creeks. The largest 

 of these is Highwater creek, whose sources are several lakes in Hose Hill 

 township, only three to seven miles from the Des Moines river. Its course 

 in this county is east-northeast, about eighteen miles. 



The Little Cottonwood river, tributary to the Minnesota a few miles 

 below the. Cottonwood river, rises nearly at the center of Cottonwood coun- 

 ty, and its first ten miles, flowing northeast, are in Amboy and Delton 

 townships. Its farther extent of about thirty miles eastward through 

 Brown county, is approximately parallel with the Big Cottonwood, and 

 mainly three to six miles distant to the south from that river. 



A tract in the east part of Cottonwood county, reaching west to its 

 center, including Selma. Mountain Lake, Carson, the south half of Delton, 

 and the northeast part of Dale, is drained by the head-streams of the Wat- 

 onwan river, tributary to the Ble Earth and, by that, to the Minnesota. 

 The area in Cottonwood county included within the basin of the Minneso- 

 ta river is approximately 450 square miles. 



The remainder of this county, including its southwestern townships. 

 an area of about 200 square miles, is drained by the Des Moines river, 

 which Hows in a zigzag course, crossing South Brook. Springfield and 

 Great Bend diagonally, having a general southeast direction in South Brook 

 and Great Bend, but making an offset in Springfield by running eight miles 

 northeasterly. Harvey creek, the outlet of. lake Augusta in northeastern 

 Amo. entering the Des Moines at its big bend in the southwest corner of 

 Dale, is its largest tributary from the north in this county: from the south 

 it receives the outlet of Spring lakes, which lie in the southwest part ot 

 Great Bend, and the outlet of Heron lake. 



Among the lake* of Cottonwood county the following merit enumeration: Mountain lake, two 

 miles long and from a half mile to one mile wide, two miles southeast from the depot and town at 



