124 NOTES ON THE NORTHWEST. 



Green Bay are large marshes of wild rice and cranberries, 

 and near the Wisconsin River, in the western part of the 

 Territory, are extensive swamps, having an abundant growth 

 of the latter plant. 



The town of Navarino is situated at the head of the Bay, 

 and Green Bay is the name of a town on the lower shore 

 near its mouth. 



On the north bank of the Wisconsin River, from the 

 Great Bend near the Fox portage, running westwardly nearly 

 to the Kickapoo, is a range of high, abrupt, thickly-wooded 

 mountains, a rare feature in the topogi'aphy of this country. 



The interior countries, south of the Fox and Wisconsin, 

 cover a fine body of farming lands. 



Rock county has a very advantageous situation on the 

 upper waters of the Rock River, and has the requisites de- 

 sired by the farmer of being well watered and timbered. 

 Among the interesting and inviting features of the interior 

 counties of Wisconsin are the small lakes found in Dane, 

 Jefferson, Fond du Lac, and other counties. The shores of 

 these beautiful reservoirs of limpid waters furnish many 

 most delightful sites for farms. They are mostly found in 

 the interior counties immediately south of the Wisconsin 

 River and east of Sugar River, a branch of the Pekatonica. 

 In all of them are found excellent fish, the pike of a large 

 size, catfish, black bass, yellow perch, mullet, &c. A group 

 of these lakes, four in number, stretch from northwest to 

 southeast in Dane county, having an outlet in a branch of 

 Rock River. This group is called The Four Lakes. Madi- 

 son, the present capital of Wisconsin, and seat of justice of 

 Dane county, is seated on a narrow isthmus, between the 

 third and fourth lakes north. Proceeding northward from the 

 southern tier of interior counties, the timber becomes more 

 abundant. 



