| Summary: | PIERCE COIBN 1'V, N. D. li this section topographically is Devils Lake, a very irregular shaped body of water some thirty miles in length and from one mile to ten miles it width. In this section also there are quite a number of hills or buttes rising to a height of several hundred feet above the surrounding territory. In the central northern portion of the State and extending across the international boundary line are the Turtle Mountains, which cover an area of nearly a thousand square miles and in genaral contour is somewhat in the form of a huge turtle. West of the Turtle Mountains is the Souris or Mouse Uiver and its tributaries, draining an area of many thousand miles in extent The Souris River enters the .State from the Territory of Assiniboia in Canada, and after crossing the State for a distance of a hundred miles or more, returns to the north and then north west, and .again entering Canada, finds its way eventually to the Hudson Bay. The Missouri River, entering the State about one hundred miles from its northwester,, corner, has a general southeastern course through the State into South Dakota The entire western portion of the State is drained by the Missouri and its tributaries, the most prominent of which, within the State, are the Yellowstone, Little Missouri, Cannon Ball and Knife Rivers. The Missouri has a deep valley from two or three miles to a dozen miles in width several hundred feet below the land on either side. The northwestern corner of the State is essentially a tableland, known as the Coteau du Missouri, and is quite broken and irregular in contour. The southwestern portion is also very irregular in contour and is varied by numerous precipitous buttes, rising Scanned with an Epson Perfection V750 flatbed scanner at 300 dpi. Edited in Multi-page TIFF Editor.
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