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and it is generally so shallow as to render it difficult to [to] ascend it with canoes except in times of high water. The banks are thickly studded with white cedar, fir, poplar, tamarack, white birch, and pine for a great extent. There are two portages or falls about ten miles above its junction with the Menomonee: it rises near Lake Brule. Its name is applied in consequence of the timber near its mouth having been destroyed by fire.

Wolf or Pewaugan a large branch of the Neenah from the north entering three miles above the Great Butte des Morts in Winnebago County. It is larger than the Neenah itself at the confluence, and immediately above it expands into a lake called Pewaugan Lake. Its head branches approach the Wisconsin near the Plover Portage so near that persons often take this route from Green Bay to the Upper Wisconsin.

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