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1 on sitting out to walk with Nature we at once find a beautiful piece of prairie, or stream bank, or retired lakelet, which
on examination we find to contain a thousand times more of beauty then heart could wish, we are full gladly willing to be
fenced in upon it for all eternity. We go forth find still greater beauty, still grander scenery increasing in intensity by
countless gradations, the very l illegible of which is illegible thousand fold too for our comprehension, we are at length
lost, bewildered, overwhelmed in the immortal sh illegible less , fathomless illegible of Gods beauty - We have had our last
communion with illegible lake, It was glassy calm full of shadow in the twilight - The most of Wis' is not more than 250 or
300 feet above Lake Mich' or 200? above the sea. The Blue Mounds west of Madison, the highest land in Wis' is only about 16
ft? above the sea 1000 above the Wis river at Helena The observatory is perhaps about 150 or 170 ft above the surrounding
country. It is a broad hill with sloping long sides, with a great pile of whimstone blocks cust upon the top. It is not quite
bare in any part for it sides are well clothed with white black illegible its illegible ky summit has gray cedars rock ferns.
A great many ravines run up against the rocks on every side - these have Desmodrums Hare bells, many precious ferns,