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portage of one and a half miles; the total fall in this distance in the river is one hundred and thirty four feet. "The amount (Says Capt. Cram) is divided into several chutes with intervening rapids. The general aspect of this series of water falls is exceedingly picturesque; at every change of the point of view, new and varied beauties are perceived; but the lower fall of the series is by far the most magnificant of all the cascades on the Menomonee: here the whole river is seen in a terrible frenzy, dashing in mighty masses of foam over a perpendicular wall of rocks forty feet in height." For some miles immediately below these falls, the scenery is quite tranquil, the river is wide, in many places six hundred feet and dotted here and there with small islands bearing a heavy growth of timber. The next fall in descending the river is the Little Quinesec where the fall is about thirty five feet in an extent of two hundred and fifty feet; and the river is contracted in width to about eighty five feet. The bed and banks are composed of slate rock.