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summer before, a couple were killed at this spot, while making a 

 picture. The loose standstone fell and buried both. McGregor has 

 only one dimension and that is east and west. It is called the "Pocket 

 City." As we returned on the ferryboat, the big stern-wheel, four- 

 decked "Capitol" came up the river with an excursion party from Du- 

 buque. We stayed at Prairie du Chien until Wednesday morning, run- 

 ning up to 920 sheets of specimens one day, still turning up new species 

 right up to the last moment of our stay in Prairie du Chien. It was a 

 fertile and interesting field. 



Fig. 7i. — Junction of the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers, showing flood 

 plains of the Wisconsin in the background. 



Wednesday, July 26th, at eleven in the morning, we left Prairie du 

 Chien bound for Platteville, Grant county. We were soon at Bridge- 

 port, where we paid twenty cents to cross the toll bridge over the Wis- 

 consin river. Rather, it was a large bridge and four small ones, for the 

 river has several divisions there. It seemed that any important bridge 

 we came to, was a toll bridge. Highway 19 was being cultivated with 

 plows as we approached a good hill that would have taxed a machine 

 had it been concrete, but we finally climbed it and were in the town so 

 romantically named, — Patch Grove. Here we were on the start of 



