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304 Notice of the Peninsula of Michigan- 
BEMARKS. 
I have never known so much warm weather at this post ag 
we have had thissummer. This place is remarkable for sud- 
den changes of temperature. 'The water of Lake Superior is 
always cold, and the wind blowing off the lake twelve or 
twenty-four hours will frequently produce a change of from 
15 to 20 degrees. See the 10th and 11th of July at 2 0’clock, 
= PP. M.—30th and 3ist of July, 2 P.M.—18th and 19th of 
June.—27th and 28th of August, &c. 
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Art. XII.—Notice of the Peninsula of Michigan, in relation 
to its Topography, Scenery, Agriculture, Population, Re- 
sources, Yc. By James Pierce, Esq. 
Tue peninsula of Michigan situated between the 41st and 
46th degrees of north latitude, is nearly environed by the wa- 
ters of Jakes Erie, St. Clair, Huron, and Michigan. It is 
about 260 miles in length, by 150 in breadth, embracing al- 
most asmuch territory as the state of Ohio, and will ere long 
constitute an important member of the confederation. 
The surface of Michigan in general, has but little elevation 
above the adjacent lakes, and presents no height of ground 
approximating to mountain altitude. It is bordered on the 
eastern side, from Ohio to the western part of Saganaw bay 
on lake Huron, by an alluvial plain, between fifteen and 
twenty milesin breadth, with a slight inclination from the inte- 
vior. Much of this district is low and wet, but heavily timber- 
ed. Thinly wooded sand ridges of no great height or extent, 
and wet meadows divested of trees and hrubs are insulated in 
this forest. The banks of the rivers Detroit and St. Clair, 
and often the shores of lakes Huron and St. Clair, rise from 
fifteen to thirty feet above the water, and havea small de- © 
scent to the wet ground of the interior. 
The soil of the low woodland plain, is sandy loam and clay, 
rich with vegetable mould, often, if not generally resting on 
