Show loins willed lale the in the state of qa ami any mate is what s callol the walled lake in romay twelve miler of the dubuque anil fat kailo ay and lw hiloa 0 dubuque city the ake la from toy feet higher than the earths in some places the wall is 10 feet high 15 beet wide at he bottom and 6 feet wide on top the stones cuned in its con f vary in from three tona down to gouid pou id tl ere la an abundance of stones in richt rii ht county but the lake to the extent of five or ten miles there no oral an ajea us to the means employed to brini them to the spot or who it aromnd the entire lake in a belt of woodland a half mile in eidth composed of oak with thia exception the country is a rolling prairie the trees must have been plau teil at the tune of the building of the wall in the spring of the year t aarl atia liilie mere u nam ice on the lake broke alia nail in several places and the fici in the vicinity were compelled to repair alo damages to inundation the lake a burbace of 2800 acres jentli of water as great as 25 feet alie water la clear and cold boil sandy and loamy it is singular that no one haq been able to asaei tain where the water come from or where it goei yet it is al aya clear awl bresli burlington hawkeye hawk eye |