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Kakalin, the fall of the river is only one foot and
seventeen hundredths in a distance of thirteen hundred
feet but the "crook" in so short and the current so
rapid and sets so strongly against the southern bank
that a boat would experience great difficulty in
passing and would invariably incur the risk of
being forced against the shore before it could turn the
elbow or crook. The Little Kakalin and Depere
Rapids are already improved by the dam at Depere
of six feet in height. The whole descent in
there rapids is about one hundred and twenty feet +
if we add one foot per mile for the descent of the
river between the rapids, we find Lake Winnebago
one hundred and sixty feet above Lake Michigan.
Above Lake Winnebago the descent in the river is probably
about half a foot per mile or sixty three feet to
the Portage, making that place, as stated in the

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