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Menomonee River

The name of these two falls, Quinnesec, is derived from what the Indians take to be smoke [spray] [and] which is is seen [to arise] continually ascending from the bottom of the torrent high into the air. The portage is short but very steep and difficult. A short distance below is Sandy Portage a beautiful rapid about a mile in extent, with a perpendicular fall. Sturgeon Falls so called because the sturgeon in ascending the river are stopped here and collect in great numbers [below], [are] the next below Sandy Portage. The fall is thirteen and three fourths feet in a distance of one thousand feet. The river is here also contracted to eighty feet in width and rushes through a straight gap or cliff, the summit of which is one hundred feet above the water below the falls. It is quite impossible for canoes, or even sturgeon to pass these falls in safety. The scenery is picturesque and the abundance of sturgeon causes it to be much visited by the Indians. The Quaver Rapids and Portage some miles below requires an hour for the passage-

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