'Cleopatra's Needle, Devil's Lake, Wisconsin', 1874. Rock formation in Wisconsin, USA. 'Cleopatra's Needle is another of the curious monuments of Nature's freaks...it is an isolated column of rock, nearly sixty feet high, piercing a surrounding bosket at a point where the cliffs are sheer to the bosom of the lake'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]