Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-02-19
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forced it altogether out of Its course.
The east end of the S>ush Bluff at
Devils Lake, for instance. offered such
powerful resistance to the glacier
which had finally swept around and
over the East Bluff as to cause it to
take direction almost opposite to Its
general one, and at last exhaust itself,
leaving the enormous morsine wedged
in between the two bluffs half a mile
east of Kirkland. Here also this little
ledge of quarizite at the Baraboo
rivers edge without doubt was bar
rIer sufficient to hold the glacier un-
til the incre asing warmth had melted
it, leaving the moraine in a huge pile
efectually covering it up until the
rushing waters had again barred it to
view as we see it today.
But let up continue our skate. We
are still going nearly due west. On
the right, and parallel to the river, is
the bank of the old G. & n. w. right
of wsy and on the left is the new.
A mile from our starting place the
river makes an abrupt turn to the
north. At this bend is ledge of Pots
dam sandstone, from whose crevlces
formerly white pines, mountain ash
and white birches grew. The year
1899, when the double track went
through, marked practically the last
of them. The wall of rock is still of
interest however. If you will scan
the gray green surface carefully you
make locate tiny nest of all lichens,
it is a phoebe's home, anyone who
| would moIest it should be sentenced
to solitary confinement.
If you will take off your skates and
follow minute, trickIing stream of
water lin the summer you may locate
it by listening) westward and then
across the double track southwark fol-
two or three hundred PAGES, you will
come to big boiling spring, that is to
say, the white sand at the bottom il
"boiling". The water is quite cold
This spring Is on the sight of another
pioneer industry, the GriswoId brick
yard. Nearly every trace has dis.
appeared. If any bricks were left they
have turned to dust.
A half mile 10 the north and We
are at the BuehrIe spring under the
big willow few PAGES from the
North Freedom road. Here the river
turns to the west again. AS we leave
the proximity of town the banks be.
come more interesting "grown up
more to brush" would be one way OF
expressing it. But one may bs q
long way short Of being botanist or
sylvirculturist and yet find a world
of interest and pleasure in just such
banks Of growing things as we are
! passing now. The common tag alder,
for instance, who would think of il as
beautiful? Only stop moment and
behold this one silhouetted against the
! snow white bank and the bright blue
SKY. Its richly decorative branches
curve upward into its finer twigs. and
these In turn so beautifully support
he pendant cone-Iike catkins. In
April 1t will unfurI new catkins which
will gleam yellow in the sunlight and
shower the earth and the water with
their golden dust.
This same tag adler, by the way,
is the most common "brush', of tEout
streams lit is the one which grows low
and horizontally out from the banks
has been the means of the losing of
some hundreds of thousands of fish
hooks and lines, and alas! provocative
of as many thousands of cuss words.
From an economic standpoint 1t is
probably useless tree.
(To.Be Continued.)