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at these rapids; and a town called La Fontaine has been laid out near their fort. Stone of excellent quality for building may be quarried here in abundance. A company has been incorporated to construct a rail road from this point to Lake Winnebago. Bridgeport or Waupakim is situated at the mouth of Plum creek in this town, about [a short distance] two miles below Rapide de Croche. From this place a survey has been made for a canal to Cliffton on Lake Winnebago. The length of the route is fourteen miles and five hundred and eighty feet; a feeder from the north branch of the Manitowoc river nearly two miles in length would be necessary. The summit is eighty five feet and fifty one hundreths above Lake Winnebago, and the Manitowoc at the head of the proposed feeder is sixty eight feet above that lake. By the construction of this canal the rapids of the Neenah would be avoided. The population of the town of Kakalin in 1842 was 257.