The name given to the county is the French name of the beautiful lake included in it. The range of country east and west, from eight to twelve miles south-east of Lake Michigan, was originally timbered land, and parts of it are somewhat hilly.
In the vicinity of the lake and Michigan City, are sand hills, originally covered with pine. The country south of the above, for six or eight miles in width, is gently undulating prairie, interspersed with groves of timber and small lakes, Still further south are the buroak openings, a few dry prairies, and the Kankakee marshes. It is the gate to Lake Michigan commerce