The Great Central Route Book, for Summer Tourists, of 1873
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It is, in itself, unique, like its surroundings, and the transient traveler gains no conception of the place by barely passing through it. ROUTE No. 10. St. Louis or Cairo to Baraboo and return. All Rail. Tickets Si36.40 each from St. Louis. " ;Si3 7.60 " " Cairo. St. Louis to Chicago Via Chicago Through Line. or Cairo to Chicago " Illinois Central R. R. Chicago to Baraboo " Chicago & Northwestern R. R. Return via same route. Tlie Devil's L,ake. The blulTs of the Wisconsin at the point where th...e Baraboo river embouches into the valley, are six hundred feet in height. In the midst of this enormous rocky stratum is a deep fissure or gorge, depressed over four hundred feet from the surface, hemmed in by mighty precipices, which constitute the basin of a body of water, about a mile and a half in length by a half mile in breadth, known as the Devil's Lake. It reposes like a dew drop in its mighty casket, and from its pro- found depths reflects the dark shadows of the beetling crags that environ it.
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