 | 1853 - Liczba stron: 666
...1848, Wisconsin was admitted as one of the states of the Union. On the northern border of this state is Lake Superior — the largest body of fresh water in the world ; and on the east, Lake Michigan — second only to Lake Superior in si/e — but vastly more important to Wisconsin,... | |
 | Daniel S. Curtiss - 1852 - Liczba stron: 384
...and Neenah, and continuing thence through the western part of Washington county, crossing Bark rive« near the Nagowicka lake, and thence passing in the...for all purposes of commerce as the ocean itself. Beside these immense lakes, Wisconsin abounds in those of smaller size, scattered profusely over her... | |
 | Daniel S. Curtiss - 1852 - Liczba stron: 386
...continuing thence through the western part of Washington county, crossing Bark river near the Nagowkka lake, and thence passing in the same general direction,...for all purposes of commerce as the ocean itself. Beside these immense lakes, Wisconsin abounda in those of smaller size, scattered profusely over her... | |
 | Daniel S. Curtiss - 1852 - Liczba stron: 382
...thence through the western part of Washington county, crossing Bark river near the Nagowicka lakeland thence passing in the same general direction, through...largest body of fresh water in the world, and on the cast is Lake Michigan, second only to Lake Superior in magnitude, forming links in the great chain... | |
 | j.d.b. be bow - 1853 - Liczba stron: 658
...18-18, Wisconsin was admitted a? one of the states of the Union. On the northern border of this state is Lake Superior — the largest body of fresh water in the world; and on the east, Lake Michigan — second only to Lake Superior in size — but vastly more important to Wisconsin,... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1853 - Liczba stron: 678
...1848, Wisconsin was admitted as one of the states of the Union. On the northern border of this state is Lake Superior — the largest body of fresh water in the world ; and on the cast, Lake Michigan — second only to Lake Superior in size — but vastly more important to Wisconsin,... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1853 - Liczba stron: 658
...1848, Wisconsin was admitted as one of the states of the Union. On the northern border of this state is Lake Superior — the largest body of fresh water in the world; and on the cast, Lake Michigan — second only to Lake Superior in size — but vastly more important to Wisconsin,... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - 1876 - Liczba stron: 604
...square miles, including its islands, and is navigable nearly 150 miles. The same principle would embrace Lake Superior, the largest body of fresh water in the world ; and larger than- any other, salt or fresh, not an arm of the sea — the Caspian excepted. And besides,... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1881 - Liczba stron: 140
...longest river is the Miss-iss-ipp-i, an Indian word which means the father of waters. The largest lake is Lake Superior *—the largest body of fresh water in the world. The largest city is New York, which, with all its suburbs, is about half the size of London. There... | |
 | Richard E. W. Goodridge - 1882 - Liczba stron: 138
...a very forward state, and exhibited some very excellent and massive stone masonry. Here we entered Lake Superior — the largest body of fresh water in the world, and, Lake Huron excepted, the stormiest ; for it is a very sea in itself, and capable of throwing up waves... | |
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Nagowicka lake, and thence passing in the same general direction, through Walworth county, into the State of Illinois. The irregular and broken appearance of this ridge is probably owing to the soft and easily decomposed limestone rock of which it is... 
