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Rivers

The Mississippi- The Great river of rivers- forms as before [said] remarked the western boundary of Wisconsin. It is augmented in this Territory by the waters of the Wisconsin, Black river, Chippewa, St. Croix, and Leaf rivers, which alone would be sufficient to form a very respectable Father of Waters, but which [hardly] do not perceptibly swell the mighty flood of the Mississippi; these with Rock river which empties into the Misssissippi in Illinois, and the St. Louis, Bois Brule, Mauvanie, and Montreal rivers tributaries of Lake Superior, and the Menomonee, Fox & Neenah, Wolf, and Milwaukee rivers, are the principal rivers in Wisconsin.

Innumerable smaller streams and branches run through the whole extent of the Territory, so that no portion of it is without an abundant supply of good and generally pure water. The Mississippi is navigable for steamboats as far up as the Falls of St. Anthony,

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