...just like fifty other such political divisions to be selected anywhere within our valley-prairies. But such is by no means the case. Greater contrasts...three hundred feet high enclosing lakes, like mountain lakes far above the general level, mantled in native forest and looming blue along the prairie horizon...

...found, within the limits of a region not mountainous, than are to be seen within the square befoie us. We have plains wide extended, so level that for the passing traveler no inequality can he perceived; towns may hail towns across the unbroken fields and houses dot the distant landscapes...

...just like fifty other such political divisions to be selected anywhere within our valley-prairies. But such is by no means the case. Greater contrasts...three hundred feet high enclosing lakes, like mountain lakes far above the general level, mantled in native forest and looming blue along the prairie horizon...