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tod*fait-Lake Butte dts Aforfs i* a forgo sheetof water* cohered to a great extent with wild rice.Butte xes Mont* village occupies, or is to occupy, a somewhat commanding location at the head of the Lane. The village at present consists of some dozen houses. Somebody has said something deprecatively about nhe plowshare of the pioneer being among the graves of the red men/ Here il is worse. The site of this village is, as its name imports, n bnrial place—‘the HiJI of the dead.’— In the olden time, so sny the Indian trn^ n* | dilions, and thev are borne out by the of, ‘ancient records/ a Waterloo conflict took 0f, place here.'•The carih was covered thic k with other ciay, Which her own clay tins covered.*There was nothing in the scene, cr surrounding asauc'ations, to Teniind one. of Tolevard; and yet Byron’s philosnplm-ntleiyil-ii,of3nadofedingonthm field would he remembered'•*Theie shall they rot. Ambitious honored fords,! Yes honor decks iny imf that wraps, their day I Vain sophistry I Iii these, behold ihc toots, ss The broken Tools that tyrant's cast awayBy wiyrfaik when they ilaio to pave (heir wayWirh UnmniY hoar If—1o a dream alone-e.inProbably the Menomonee Napoleons and Wi tin*1 bp go Wellinpiona, whose r, ! bones ore mouldering beneath the civdiz-r* 1 cd hearthstones o; Jiulte dcs Moris,( were as sensible ‘dreamers* in their clay, os these chieftains of more recent days, whose namesare considered synotnyuous with fame and giory. j A short disiiirj ceabove Butte dcs Morts ^ j the Wolf flows into ibe Fox. Whnta, ?r5 pair of savage names for two namrally 03 , tame, and rapidly becoming civilized rivers I The union is consummated in the midst of a grand marsh, and is ii much more common place a flair than the junction of Silver Creek whh the mil I pond near Watertown.aic-ndtokefie
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Democratic State Register
Watertown, Wisconsin, US
Mon, Jul 07, 1851
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