HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
and beautiful lakes — of which the State has 
many hundreds—and of its delightful, invigo- 
rating summer climate. The stories of these 
advantages were not lost on the beauty-loving 
French, and soon colonies were formed for the 
settlement of this beautiful ‘‘ Neekoospara,’ 
as they had learned to call from the Indians 
the country now known as Wisconsin. It may 
rightly theu be inferred that the French were 
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high and more than twenty feet thick. This, 
with another, near the Blue Mounds, a short 
distance from Madison, resembles a man in a 
recumbent position. Another, also near Mad- 
ison, in Dane county, resembles a turtle; one 
at the south end of '*The Devil’s Lake,” in 
Sauk county, closely resembles an eagle; and 
one near Cassville, in Grant county, on the 
Mississippi River, resembles the extinct Mas- 
PYRAMID ROCK, DEVIL’S LAKE, WISCONSIN. 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 
the first whites to make homes along the bays, 
lakes, and rivers of this well-favored land. 
Scattered all over the State can be found ob 
jects of interest to the lovers of the pictur- 
esque, and not a few to claim the attention of 
the antiquarian. Scattered over her undulat- 
ing plains are found earthworks, modeled af- 
ter the forms of men and animals, that are 
evidently the work of some other race than 
those who possessed the country at the time 
the French arrived, At Aztalan, in Jefferson 
county, is an ancient fortification, 1,700 long 
and 900 feet wide, with walls five to six feet 
todon. The Blue Mounds, in Dane county, rise 
to 2,000 feet above the surrounding country, 
and are prominent landmarks in that prairie 
country. It shares with Minnesota the beau- 
tiful Lake Pepin, an expansion of the Missis- 
sippi River, mostly walled in by precipitous 
shores that rise in places to five hundred feet. 
Connected with almost every cliff or promon- 
tory along the shores of this beautiful lake are 
legends of the Indians who formerly had their 
homes there. Oliver Gibbs, Jr., has beauti- 
fully described it in his incomparable ‘‘ Lake 
Pepin Fish-Chowder.” ‘If I write,” he says, 
