The interior of the county is generally elevated and undulating.

Wisconsin the prairies are named, and in Illinois the groves. The Griffon is said to have been a plain, substantial little schooner, of some sixty tons burden, and carryimg five small guns. And women's tears fell fast and children wailed aloud. The rivers afford much more'extenlsive navigable facilities than does the lake. Illinois and Wisconsin, and I shall lay aside the sickle. Plums, of various sizes and flavor, grow in great abundance; their color is generally red, and their taste delicious. Indian agents, traders, and contractors to supply the Pottawattomees. Population, 3,234; dwellings, 554; farms, 304; manufactories, 11. It possesses extensive water-power, and good stone quarries.

It is the only large map that exhibits the United States in its full extent. Of the necessity of reliable po,rtraitures and statistics of the West, Mr. Bushnell, 298-Names of the States, 302 Routes, etc. Putnam,Whitesides, Henry, Carroll, and into Jo Daviess. It is remarkable as being com pletely surrounded by the waters of the Mississippi.