The Madison guide book, Madison, Wisconsin - Surrounded by Reality

6 THE CITY OF MADISON.ing hilly background-, and we know of no other lakecity thusuniquely placed between two bodies of water.The SKy Line of the City.To persons susceptible to beautiful effects this is striking.At sunset from lake Monona the city looms insharp outline against the colored skyey background.The Capitol, the lofty water-tower, church spires andother tall structures seem etched upon the firmament,suggesting that city of the poets' reverie, seen" In cloudland or the land of dreamsBathed in a goldenatmosphere/'Sunset Across Mendota.To speak of our sunsets may sound provincial; yet theeffects across Mendota surpass any mere inland view.The changing tints of heaven are intensified by the broadmirror of the water, which becomes a sheet of gorgeouscolor.Madison people delight to show visitors this beautifulspectacle.Lakes Monona and MendotaAre approximately eight hundred and forty five feetabove ocean level, and two hundred and ten feet higher