. Tourist's guide to the Mississippi River : giving all the railroad and steamboat routes diverging from Chicago, Milwaukee, and Dubuque, toward St. Paul, and the falls of St. Anthony; also, railroad and steamboat routes from Chicago and Milwaukee to Lake Superior; together with an account of cities and villages, and objects of interest, on the route and in the upper valley of the Mississippi ... . stern Wis-ccrnsin. The Isothermal Lines (lines passingthrough points whose Summer tempera-ture is equal) are also worthy of specialattention. It will be observed that themean of 70° Fahr. (which is
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. Tourist's guide to the Mississippi River : giving all the railroad and steamboat routes diverging from Chicago, Milwaukee, and Dubuque, toward St. Paul, and the falls of St. Anthony; also, railroad and steamboat routes from Chicago and Milwaukee to Lake Superior; together with an account of cities and villages, and objects of interest, on the route and in the upper valley of the Mississippi ... . stern Wis-ccrnsin. The Isothermal Lines (lines passingthrough points whose Summer tempera-ture is equal) are also worthy of specialattention. It will be observed that themean of 70° Fahr. (which is the averagetemperature of Southern New York, andof Xorthern Ohio, Indiana, and Ilhnois)when it reaches Chicago, , in its westerncourse, suddenly bends northward, enter-ing Wisconsin at Beloit, in Rock county, passing through Madison, the capital ofthe State, and then bears north-westwardto the county of St. Croix, whose westernboundary it cuts near Prescott, situatedat the mouth of the St. Croix river, andfrom thence strikes St. Paul, continuingnorthward toward Pembina, situated onthe Red river of the North. By a reference to I. A. Lafhams ■•Cli-matte Map of Wisconsin, ^ the range of sum-mer and winter temperatures is mostingeniously and singularly shown; theinfluence of the Great Lakes tending toelevate the mean temperature of winter, and depressing that of summer. DUBUQUB TO ST. PAUL. il. §TEA]fIBOAT EXCUKSIO-V, From Dubuque to St. Paul, Minn., giving a Description of the Cities, and Vil-lages, and Objects of Interest on the Upper Mississippi River. On starting from Dubuque, bySteamer the river here beingalx)ut half-a-mile wide, you en-counter low wooded islands, which are continually in sightfrom the deck oi the fleet boat, which is alike calculated for theaccommodation of passengers andfor the carrjdng of freight. The bluffs on either side of the stream, rising from 100 to 400 feet above thewater, are also continually in sight, beingseparated from one to five miles asunder, w