DAKOTA COUNTY, 1888. N. H. WINCHELL. 



The underlying rocks have nearly the same range as those of Goodhue county, 

 probably lacking the Cretaceous, but are less exposed. The Trenton affords inter- 

 esting fossils at West St. Paul, but throughout the county its limits are indicated 

 more frequently by the shelf-like jog in the topography than by the actual beds in 

 outcrop, since it is much weathered and covered by gravel and loam, or by till. 



The northwestern one-fourth part of the county is timbered, and some portions 

 of Douglass and Ravenna, in the southeastern, but the most of the rest of the county 

 is prairie, with scattered groves of oak and poplar. N. H. w. 



