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Neenah river

The Neenah or as it was formerly called the Fox river of Green Bay is one of the most important rivers in Wisconsin, extending as it does nearly half across the Territory and almost touching at the Portage the waters of another river by which navigation may with a little improvement be extended across the country from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi. It takes its rise in Lake Sarah in Portage County and [making] in a direction a little south of west, (almost directly opposite its general course) for eighteen miles, towards the Wisconsin as if with the intention of [continuing] entering that river; but owing to some unaccountable freak of nature it here when within one and a half miles of that stream makes a sudden turn to the north and soon assumes its general course towards Green Bay. From the Portage to Lake Winnebago, through which this river passes, it winds about among extensive marshes covered with tall grass & wild rice.

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