New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-23

WALLED LAKE ~ IowA-A correspondent Ct The
Cincinnati G0:eHe gives an account OF vollea lake
in Wright County, Iowa. He says:
ITO me il was one Of the greatest curostes had
ever seep-enveoped a. its history Is with mantle
that will probably never be Withdrawn. This lake
lies in the midst Of vast PLAINTIFF rich gently un-
duating prairie extending for many miles IN every di.
rection The lake covers area of about ND
acres. The water is clear and cold WIN ~ S sasu'
sandy bottom, from two to twenty-five feet deep
There ia a strip of timber about half way round u,
probably ten rods wide being the only timber in many
miles There as rdu OF he0ry @9ns az rosaa ~.
II is no accidental matter IL has been buih with
human hands. In some places the land is higher than
the lake, in which case the wall only amounts To
something like a rT-r0p protection rms ceueve.
is what engineers call H. Btd I'D o,net P'aees ,hs
water higher in the lake than the prairie outside %
the wall The wall in some places Is ten Feet nigh u
is thirteen feet wide at the base, sloPng up boh Sides
TO five feet wide on the top The wall is bult entirety
of boulders from three tuns in Hse down 70 my
pounds. They are all what are called lost roeS.
am no geologst and consequently can give no ea ed
description Of them. They are not, however ~ tyes
TO the manor born. Nor has the wan noe' made By
the washing away of the earth and eav no The rocks
There is 10 native rock in this regr = Rasdss this
is a continuous wall, two miles which nj least il
higher than the land MMSoa nso op Of the wall i evs
places two feet, and in ,has go ' so, aah T%aa
rocks many OF them at Least must have been broupbt
co,;v Inc he's. .obably five or ten miles. In Wright
yum! W. us rocks scattered pretty freely but
h; a,V .0ach this lake they disappear, showing
lnd' 'ne' nave been gathered by some agency-when
Tr ny HON history will unfold. Some Of the
utF st oaks in the grove growing up through the
all pushing the rocks in, in some cases, outside in
others, accommodating their shape to the rocks The
| axe abounds with excellent fish. The land in that
township yet belongs to the Government.
When was thee in the Spring of 1856, the wind
had blown large piece Of ice against the southwest
part of the wall and had knocked il down, that the
water running out and flooding the farms Of some
of the settlers and they about to repair the wall
to protect their crops. II is beautiful farm land nearly
all around this lovely lake.
The readers Of The gazette should not imagine
that the wall around this lake il regular and as
rice as the wall around the fountain in front OF tho
City Hall in New York, nor need any entertain the
theory that it is a nataral wall but il has been buk
hundreds, and probably thousands of years. The
tqunry may speculate by whom this mighty as wen
as ornamental, work was done, but It VIII only DO
speculation.
Notwithstanding the water in the lake l. pure and
COOL there visible feeder or outlet. This lake Is
about twelve miles north of the located line Of the Du
buque and Pacific Railroad, aud about one hundred
and fifty miles west of the former place. The time "
coming when the lake will be great place Of public