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Devil's Lake and the quartzite bluffs

Sauk County, Wisconsin · 1911

Devil's Lake and the quartzite bluffs

A lake with no inlet or outlet, dammed at both ends by glacial moraine between 500-foot bluffs of 1.6-billion-year-old quartzite. The Ho-Chunk name means sacred lake; the English one is a mistranslation.

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