140 GEOLOGY OP EASTERN WISCONSIN. 



in Kenosha county; Wind, Long and Browii/s in Racine county; 

 Muskego, Pewaukee and that beautiful cluster known as the Ocono- 

 mowoc lakes, about forty in number, in Waukesha county; Cedar, 

 Little Cedar and Silver lakes in Washington county; Long and Round 

 lakes in Fond du Lac county; Elkhart and Bear lakes in Sheboygan 

 county, and Cedar, Pigeon and Wilke lakes in Manitowoc county. 

 Rock lake in the town of Lake Mills, Jefferson county, and Clear lake, 

 near Milton, Rock county, belong to the same category, though un- 

 connected with the main chain of the Kettle Range. 



Of the foregoing, Muskego, Wind and several smaller lakes asso- 

 ciated with these, bear evidence of having formerly constituted parts 

 of a much more extensive body of water, that leveled by erosion and 

 deposition the original uneven surface in their vicinity, so that its 

 primitive drift features disappeared and with them the corresponding 

 features of those lakes, so that they do not now present those charac- 

 teristics which are common to the majority of the others. 



There is also some evidence that the comparatively level area in 

 which the Oconomowoc lakes are embosomed was, immediately after 

 the glacial period, occupied by an extensive lake that reduced the gen- 

 eral surface to its present degree of uniformity by washing down pro- 

 jecting points, while it was unable to fill the present lake basins, they 

 being below the line of its wave action. 



Tlw value of the lakes of eastern Wisconsin is much greater than 

 is sometimes apprehended. Beauty is not an unimportant element of 

 value. Attractive scenery adds materially to the worth of both rural 

 and urban property. 



The wealth of eastern Wisconsin has been materially increased dur- 

 ing the last decade, simply through the charm of its beautiful lakelets. 

 Thousands of citizens of other states have visited them, and large ho- 

 tels and beautiful summer residences have been erected as substantial 

 tokens of the enduring admiration which these gems of nature have 

 awakened. 



The salutary influence which they exert over the people of our own 

 state by tempting to healthful recreation and by the cultivation of 

 aesthetic tastes is scarcely to be estimated. 



To those who admire a broad expanse of water, Lake Winnebago, 

 with its cliffs on the one hand and its wooded plains on the other; 

 Green Bay, with its rocky battlements on the right, its forests on the 

 left, its viewless limits on the north, its islands and harbors, and, par 

 excellence, the oceanic Lake Michigan present their varied attrac- 

 tions. 



Among the smaller lakes that have been accorded the greatest meas- 



