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the rapid settlement that might under other circumstances be expected. But Washington County has a rail which is perhaps not surpassed by any in the Territory; an abundance of water gushing up from the limestone substratum on almost every quarter section, and extensive water privileges at the Milwaukee Falls and many other places; with these advantages we may safely predict that this will in time become one of the richest counties.

A considerable number of German emigrants have made their new homes in the southern part of this county. The Milwaukee river lies chiefly in Washington county, rising near the sources of the Sheboygan in Fond du Lac County and running in a south easterly direction about thirty miles to within a few miles of the Lake where it turns to the south and runs about thirty miles parallel with the shore and enters the Lake at Milwaukee. Near the mouth of the Mequan river it is confined between high perpendicular banks of limestone rock and has a considerable fall. This place is called the "Milwaukee Falls": and from here to the