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farmers and others has been attracted to the culture of the 
Orchard and the Nursery. The country abounds with a great 
variety of wild fruit — strawberries, raspberries, blackberries,, 
whortleberries, plums, &c., &c. 
This portion of Wisconsin, being well watered by numerous 
living springs and small streams, and possessing a large 
amount of natural meadows of rich grass, is well adapted to* 
raising stock and for dairy purposes. 
The character of rocks and stone is principally limestone,, 
sandstone, and a species of granite; the former predominates. 
It is valuable for building, and produces the best and whitest 
quality of lime. 
The principal rivers are the Fox, East (or Manitou), and 
Big Suamico. It also has within its limits a part of Green 
Bay, the northern boundary line of the county crossing the 
Bay about twelve miles below the City of Green Bay, where 
the Bay is about 14 miles in width. 
There are several large settlements, consisting of well culti¬ 
vated farms and substantial improvements; the principal are in 
the towns of Green Bay, Glenmore, Holland, the Belgian 
Settlement, Morrison, New Denmark, Howard, Suamico, Duck 
Creek, Belleview, Wrightstown, Depere, Lawrence, Preble and 
the Oneida Settlement. The farms are mostly well-cleared and 
well-cultivated, with good and substantial rail and board fences, 
comfortable dwellings of log or frame construction, many of 
the latter being neat and commodious, and good and ample 
barns, stables and other out-buildings. 
The farming community are of a mixed character, being 
Americans, Germans, Belgians, Hollanders, some Irish, Danes 
and French; but the latter, who formerly formed a large ma¬ 
jority of the population, are fast disappearing before the people 
of other classes, who greatly outnumber the old Canadian 
french. As a general thing, the foreigners who cultivate the 
soil are good farmers: they do not cultivate very large farms r 
but do it well. 
