Milwaukee, and is on the northwest quarter of the section. Its form is oval, beautifully curved and indented with small bays and promontories, and being supplied by springs it has no visible inlet. Its shores are elevated by gently rising banks, and bordered on all sides with a fine growth of forest trees. ASHFORD, Town, in county of Fond du Lac, being town 13 N.,

range 18 E.; centrally located, 15 miles southeast from the

city of Fond du Lac. The population in 1850 was 546. It has 7 school districts.

ASHIPPUN, Town, in county of Dodge, being town 9 N., range 17 E.; centrally located, 14 miles southwest from Juneau. It has 8 school districts.

ASHIPPUN, P.0., in town of same name, in southwest corner of Dodge county.

ASHWABENA, River, in Brown county, a small tributary of the Fox, emptying opposite to Depere.

ATTANWA, River, a tributary from the east of St. Croix river, a few miles above the Falls of St. Croix.

ATTICA, P. V., in southwest corner of the town of Brooklyn, on Sugar river, Green county.

ATTONOWINING, River, a tributary from the north of river St. Croix. AUBURN, P. O., Fond du Lac county, on section 18, of town of the same name, 14 miles southeast from Fond du Lac, and 90 miles northeast from Madison. It is situated on the Rubicon, the head waters of Milwaukee river, and has 1 store, 1 hotel, and 1 church.

AUBURN, Town, in the county of Fond du Lac, being town 13 N., range 19 E.; centrally located, 18 miles southeast from Fond du Lac. The population is 400. It has 8 school districts. AVOCA, P. V., in Fond du Lac county, on section 13, town 14 N., range 16 E.

AVON, P. O., in town of same name, Rock county, on section 8, town 1 N., range 10 E.

AVON, Town, in the county of Rock, being town 1 N., of range 10 E.; centrally located, 17 miles southwest from Janesville. The population in 1850 was 588. It has 7 school districts. AZTALAN, Town, in the county of Jefferson, being town 7 N., of range 14 E.; centrally located, 5 miles north from Jefferson, the county seat. The population in 1850 was 429. It has 8 school districts.

AZTALAN, P. V., in Jefferson county, and town of same name, 7 miles northwest from Jefferson, and 28 miles east from Madison. It is on both sides of the Crawfish, on the direct road from Madison to Milwaukee. It contains 1 Baptist church, 3 denominations of Christians, 2 blacksmiths, 1 waggon-maker, 1 shoe shop, 1 fanning mill shop, brick yard, 1 saleratus factory, 3 stores, 2 hotels, 1 steam mill, 1 nursery of 150,000 trees, and an extensive stone quarry. In this town is situated the renowned "Ancient City," which comprises 30 acres of land. The city is surrounded by a brick wall, and is an object of antiquarian research. Population 250.

BACHELOR'S GROVE, P. V., in Rock county, on section 4, town 2, range 11 E., of the town of Plymouth; 10 miles west from Janesville, and 40 miles south from Madison. Population 70, with 12 dwellings, 1 temperance hotel, and a M. E. church. BAD Ax, Town, in county of Bad Ax. The population in 1850 (at which time it formed a portion of Crawford county,) was 630. It has 8 school districts.

BAD AX, County, is bounded on the north by La Crosse, on the east by Sauk and Richland, on the south by Richland and Crawford, and on the west by the Mississippi river, and was set off from Crawford and organized March 1, 1851. The county seat was established by a vote of the electors of the county on the 29th day of Jnne, 1852, at Varoqua, near the centre of the county. It forms a part of the sixth judicial circuit, the second congressional, and the nineteenth senate district, and with Crawford sends one member of the assembly.

The streams are the Bad Ax, Kickapoo and Racoon rivers, with their tributaries, and small streams emptying into the Mississippi. A large quantity (41,807 acres,) of that portion of school lands known as the 500,000 acre grant, is situated in Bad Ax county, the soil of which is good, and produces good crops of wheat, oats, corn, &c. This county is comparatively new, and contained in 1850 less than 700 inhabitants. During the last two years the population has increased very fast.-County Officers: Judge, Henry J. Defrees; Sheriff, James Bailey; Clerk of Court, Wm. F. Terhune..

BAD AX, River, in Bad Ax county, rises in town 14, range 4 W.; runs southwest, and empties into the Mississippi, in town 12. Its mouth is remarkable for being adjoining the site of the last battle field with Black Hawk, August 2d, 1832.

BAD AX, P. V., in Bad Ax county, on section 25, town 12 N., range 5 W.

BAD FISH, Creek, rises in Oregon, Dane county, and runs southeast, emptying into the Catfish river, in Porter, Rock county. BAD, River, of Lake Superior. See Mauvoise.

BAILEY's, Harbor, on western shore of Lake Michigan, in town 30, Door county, at Gibraltar.

BAKER'S CORNER, P. V., in Walworth county, on section 6, town 3, range 18 E., town of Spring Prairie, 10 miles northeast from Elkhorn, and 80 miles southeast from Madison, on the road from Janesville to Racine, at the junction of the highway to East Troy and Milwaukee. It is in a good farming district, well adapted to raising wheat, &c.

BALD, Prairie, in Winnebago county, in towns of Clayton, Vinland, Winneconne and Winchester.

BALL, River, see La Crosse river and Prairie La Crosse.

BARABOO, P. V. and C. H., on both sides of river of same name, in Sauk county; it is mostly on section 2, in town 11 N., of range 6 E., and is about 50 miles northwest from Madison.

It now includes the village of Adams. It has 6 taverns, 7 stores, 5 mills, 26 mechanical shops, 1 carding machine, 1 tannery, and 1 printing office at which the Sauk County Standard is published weekly. Population, 2,000.

BARKER'S, Lake, is in the northwest part of the town of Sugar Creek, Walworth county. It is about one and a half miles in length.

BARK, Point, Lake Superior, near the mouth of Heron river. BARK, River, rises in Richfield, Washington county, and running southwest through the towns of Merton, Delafield, Summit, and Ottawa, in Waukesha county, passes through the towns of Sullivan, Hebron, Cold Spring and Koskonong, in Jeffervon county, emptying into Rock river at Fort Atkinson, five niles above Lake Koshkonong.

BARK RIVER, P. O., Jefferson county, in the town of Hebron, 10
mles southeast of Jefferson, and 40 southeast of Madison.
BARTON P. O., Washington county. See village of Newark.
BASS, Lke, a small lake on section 24, in the town of Rutland,
Dan county.

BASS LAK P.O. in Rutland, Dane county, discontinued.
BATTLE, Cek, is a small stream having its source in two or three

small kes in Summit, Waukesha county, runs northwesterly,
and emties into Oconomowoc river, in the town of Concord,
Jefferso county.

BEACHWOOD, O., in county of Sheboygan, being in Scott, town 13 N., rae 20 E.

BEAR, Creek, Copewa county, enters Buffalo Slough from the east. BEAR CREEK, H., in Richland county.

BEAR, Creek, rit in Sauk county, and runs southwest into the Wisconsin, Lange 2 E.

BEAR, Island, in Michigan, near southeast corner of town 32, range 29 E., 1r county. It is about a mile in diameter.

BEAR, Lake, in the town of Greenbush, Sheboygan county, on sec. 29, township 15, range 20 E.

BEAVER, Creek, a tributary from the north of Black river, entering the same near Dakorra Mound, La Crosse county.

BEAVER DAM, Town, in the county of Dodge, being township 11,

of range 14, and south half of town 12, range 14, and south half of town 12, range 13, eight miles west from Juneau, the county seat. The population in 1850 was 1,830. It has 10 school districts.

BEAVER DAM, River, rises in Fox lake, and runs south, emptying into the Crawfish, in the southern portion of Dodge county. BEAVER DAM, P. V. in town of same name, Dodge county, being

on section 4, town 11 N., range 14 E. It is situated on a stream of the same name, at the outlet of a pond some 8 or 10 miles in extent, where stands a flouring mill, in which are constantly employed 4 runs of stone; where there is to be built the coming season another flouring mill and woollen factory, an oil mill, a saw mill, and a carding machine; with 5 more saw mills and 2 flouring mills with two runs of stone each, within 3 miles of the village, and yet the stream is considered sufficient for considerable improvement in the line of mills and machinery. A strip of excellent timber skirts its banks, rendering timber and lumber very abundant and cheap. In the village there are 3 hotels, 10 or 12 stores, 1 apothecary shop, 1 furnace, 1 cabinet, 1 tin, 1 saddle and harness shops, 2 livery stables, 3 churches, and two to be built immediately; 1 jewelry store, 6 doctors, 1 printing office, besides carpenter, tailor, blacksmith, waggon and shoe shops, &c., with some 400 dwellings, and a population of at least 1,500. This place possesses superior advantages. It has plenty of water power, and of timber to saw, thus reducing the price of lumber and rendering building easy. It is surrounded by one of the most fertile sections of the state, which naturally inclines to this point for a market; and its