Rains are frequent, and they generally fall at a favorable time. The climate of this region is generally uniform and favorable to the crops that are now tried there with remarkable success. The face of the country is in general undulating, diversified by valleys overgrown with cedars and spruce trees, sandy hills covered with evergreens, and large tracts of rich land filled with the different varieties of hard wood, oak, maple, beech, ash, elm, and birch. These immense forests are bounded on the east by Greenīay of Lake Michigan, and by the lake itself. Nothing else but trees as far as you can travel from the bay, either towards With the exception of these isolated spots where the trees have been cutĭown and burned, all is a wild but majestic forest. Of more or less extent, sometimes a half league in width to afford spaceįor an infant town, or perhaps three or four acres intended for a farm.
Which are to be met with here and there, along newly opened roads, clearings The Great Peshtigo Fire: An Eyewitness Account by Reverend Peter Perninįrom the Wisconsin Magazine of History 1971Ī COUNTRY COVERED with dense forests, in the midst of
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