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Near Frazee the surface is rough and broken and there are man 
deep valleys containing lakes, ponds, or swamps. A notable depres- 
sion or old channel is crossed by the railway just 
Frazee. southeast of the town. This channel extends north- 
Elevation 1,410 feet. westward from Murphy Lake, 2 miles southeast of 
rar on.. Braces, and-it-is generally occupied by swamps or 
long, narrow lakes. The railway follows it for 3 miles 
beyond the town, and some of the views of the little lakes on both 
sides of the track are very pretty. Town Lake, close to Frazee, and 
Harold Lake, farther on, are in this channel on the left (south) of 
the track; and Chilton and Brink Lakes are irregular bodies of water 
on the other side. 
Frazee is in the heart of a lake region, where large lakes abound 
on all sides of the town, but none of them are visible from the train 
for several miles beyond Harold Lake. It is also in a great morainic 
belt, which was formed by the ice sheet (western) that invaded this 
country from the Red River valley. The hills are steep and conical, 
and the depressions between them are very pronounced. To this 
glacier is largely due the lake region of central-western Minnesota, 
we own as a summer resort and as a paradise for sportsmen. 
The largest and best-known sheet of water that is visible from the 
train in this vicinity is Detroit Lake, which can be seen on the left 
as the train skirts its banks between mileposts 208 and 209, a short 
time before reaching the station at Detroit. From Detroit Lake a 
river channel leads southward into and through a series of other lakes 
of equal beauty. This channel has been made navigable by a system 
of locks, and small steamers ply from lake to lake, passing the finest 
scenery of the lake region. The drinking water used on Northern 
eae Pacific dining cars comes from Pokegama Spring, 
Elevation 1,386 feet. 00 the shore of Detroit Lake. 
Population 2,807. Detroit i i i 
Ppt: 3 000-: etroit 1s one of the most important towns in the 
lake region, and is a point of departure for many of 
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possibly the larger part will be buried in If the material surrounding the kettle 
sand and gravel washed out from the front | is open and porous, and if there is 
of the glacier. In the course of time the underground drainage, the kettle may 
the surrounding sand and gravel fall into | theresult. Some of the lakes of this region 
the hole left by the ice. This leaves such | are many miles across, and if their basins 
a depression as that shown in the dia- were formed in this 
gram—a kettle, as it is generally called | that itl 
_ Ina glaciated country. 
