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Brown County

The Pemenee Falls (Elbow) so called from a crook in the river just below has a fall of eight and eighty four hundreths feet in a distance of eight hundred and thirty three feet, exclusive of a short rapid immediately above the principal chute. The passage for the water in its narrowest place is fifty feet wide. A slight rapids called White rapids lies between the Pemenee and the Grand Rapids where for two miles the water is shoal and passes over a smooth [rocky] bottom of flat stones. Below there are two slight rapids known as Cjappeaus and the Menomonee rapids. When this country becomes densely populated the various rapids along the river will, in consequence of the water power they afford, become the sites of important villages and manufacturing towns.