10 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 82. ' 



in the village all directions, far or near, terminate in the pre- 

 vailing county scenery of stumps, stubs and second growth. 

 The village lakes are mainly surrounded by second growth 

 growing from the water and a dense blue-berry growth sur- 

 rounds " mud pond " in a similar manner, while Crystal lake 

 is encircled by a beach of white sand. The village lakes are 

 said to be shallow and Crystal over a hundred feet deep, but 

 none of these bodies of water show plant life above the sur- 

 face. Fish have been introduced into these lakes with poor 

 success ; doubtless, in part owing to absence of suitable aquatic 

 plant life. From Lincoln to the Backus hotel, at the south 

 end of Hubbard lake in Sec. 2, Ilawes Township, is six 

 and one-half miles west and four and one-half north ; thence 

 the lake extends north seven miles to the county line, with 

 an east and west width of about three miles and a stated 

 depth of ninety-seven feet. The water shed here is towards 

 the north. Sucker creek flows northwest from the vicinity of 

 Lincoln and West Branch river flows northeast, both enter- 

 ing the lake at the south end, while the outlet is Hubbard 

 river at the north end, which flows nearly due north for 

 eighteen miles. Sucker creek was not visited, but West 

 Branch enters the southwest corner of the lake in Sec. 3. It 

 narrows from eighty feet in width at the lake to thirty feet 

 one mile inland and is a very crooked channel of clear water 

 through inundated lands caused by a dam across the outlet 

 of Hubbard lake, which has raised the water level some three 

 or more feet. Entering West Branch from the lake we pass 

 through tamarack forest, gradually changing to white elm, 

 red maple, black ash. etc.. but all killed by the overflow and 

 imparting a dreary aspect, enhanced by the rushes that are 

 spread through the woods from the channel bank. Yellow 

 perch, black bass and pike are the common Hubbard lake 

 fish and brook trout abound some six miles from the lake in 

 West Branch, as doubtless up the Sucker and other streams. 

 Some half dozen farms begin one mile west and north of 

 Lincoln and extend west on both sides of a road and this is 

 spoken of as " the settlement." The foregoing briefly depicts 



