THE HISTORY OF DEVILS LAKE, WISCONSIN 



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tioned is conceived to be most important, and needs more complete 

 description. 



From the extreme east end of the east loop of the terminal 

 moraine at the west foot of Sauk Point, the land slopes south from 

 the north limb of the moraine, north from the south limb, and west 

 from the junction of the two limbs. The water formed by melting 

 at the edge of the ice must therefore have concentrated in the 

 depression between the two limbs of the moraine and must have 



FrG. i. — Sketch map showing Devils Lake and its drainage basin during the 

 occupancy of the ice. 



flowed westward into what has been called the Steinke Lake by 

 Salisbury and Atwood 1 (see Fig. i). The same general conditions 

 existed in the minor loop north of the Steinke Lake, and the waters 

 from this loop must have mingled with those from Sauk Point in the 

 Steinke Lake. 



The Steinke Lake was a body of water about f mile long east 

 and west and \ mile broad north and south, held in by a low ridge of 

 quartzite on the west, the north limb of the ice edge on the north, 

 the westward slope of the land from Sauk Point on the east, and 

 the northward slope of the South Range and the south limb of the 



1 R. D. Salisbury and W. W. Atwood, Bull. No. 5, Wis. Geul. and Nat. Hist. 

 Surv., pp. 120, 133-34, PI. XXXVII. 



