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

LAKE WINGRA.17than Lake Michigan. Monona is three, miles in lengthand two in width; its area is five square miles; greatestdepth seventy-five feet. The tracks of the Chicago.Milwaukee and St. Paul and those of the Chicago andNorth Western Railroads run along the city shore ofMonona.Mendota is the largest of the four lakes. It is fivefeet higher than Monona; greatest length six miles:width four miles; area fifteen square miles; circumferencetwenty-two miles;greatest depth eighty-four feet,Both lakes have a broken and varied shore line.Blutisand embankments rise from forty to one hundred andtwent}^ five feet above the water, their sides and tipscovered with trees and shrubs. Between them arefields of hav, wheat or corn, with an occasional meadowgreen with rushes and swarming with blackbirds.Lake WingraLies one and one half miles west of the capitol; a stripof land less than one quarter of a mile broad separatesit from the Monona bay (that part of Monona lake enclosedby the railroad tracks). It is commonly spokenof as Dead lake because it has no inlet and is only con-Wingra lakenected with Monona by a sluggish stream.skirts Wingra Park and South Madison, two of the westernsuburbs of the city; it is circular in shape with a diamaterof one mile; depth twent3^-five feet. This lake isnow being improved b}' the Madison Park and PleasureDrive association. Henry Yilas park of sixty acres willoccupy thenorthwest shore: the shore will be filled andthe lake dredged; the outlet will be widened and deep-