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Lake Monona is somewhat smaller. . A great 
many efforts have been made to depict the 
beauties of the location; but no words can 
convey an adequate idea of what is, indeed, in- 
describable. Four lakes lie embosomed like 
gems, shining in the midst of groves of forest 
trees, while the gentle swells or the prairies, 
dotted over by fields and farms, lend a charm 
to the view which words cannot depict. The 
lakes abound in choice fish—black bass, pike, 
pickerel, perch, and whitefish. Ladies and 
gentlemen make it a business to go out troll- 
Prominent among the resorts of the North- 
west stands the Devil’s Lake, in Sauk county, 
Wisconsin, thirty-miles north of Madison. The 
bluffs of the Wisconsin, at the point where the 
Baraboo River embouches into the valley, are 
six hundred feet in height. In the midst of 
this enormous rocky stratum is a Ceep fissure 
or gorge, depressed over four hundred feet 
from the surface, hemmed in by mighty preci- 
pices, which constitute the basin of a body of 
water about a mile and a half in length by a 
half mile in breadth, known as Devil’s Lake 
AGNES PARK, NEAR HILL CITY, IN THE BLACK HILLS, DAKOTA. 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 
ing for fish. They sit in the boat and row 
about gently, permitting ‘the line to drag after, 
with the metallic spoon whirling in the clear 
water. The principal hotels are the Park 
House, the Vilas House, and the Lake Side 
House. The hotel proprietors all vie to excel 
each other in providing entertainments for 
their guests. Madison is one hundred and 
thirty-eight miles from Chicago. 
There is good shooting to be had all around 
Mendota, one hundred and forty-three miles 
from Chicago. 
The level of the water is one hundred and 
ninety feet above the Wisconsin River, and it 
is supposed that the bottom reaches below that 
of the river. The lake is one of the most won- 
derful romantic spots in existence, and nothing 
to compare with it is to be seen this side of 
the Rocky Mountains. It abounds in fish. 
It has no visible inlet or outlet, and one can 
see through the water like quartz-crystal of 
the clearest sort to the depth of fifty feet, and 
over. The lake is one hundred and seyenty- 
two miles from Chicago. 
