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five hundred, occupying about eighty buildings the principal part of which were of logs arranged in two streets, parallel with the river. On the 26th of August the party encamped at the mouth of the Milwaukee river where they found two American families and a village of Pottowatomies- it is the division line between the lands of the Menomonees and the Pottowatomies; the latter claim all south of it."

At the Portage between the Wisconsin and Fox rivers they found a good wagon road and a French man lives on the spot who keeps a number of horses and cattle for the transportation of baggage, for which twenty five cents per hundred weight is demanded."

In 1823 Major Long commanded a party on an expedition similar to that of Governor Cass that traversed the country from Chicago to Prairie du Chien where they found only about one hundred and fifty souls. From thence they went up the Mississippi