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Rivers

Panyack, near the centre of township three range twenty, one and a fourth miles long and three fourths wide.

Tish-shar-gon, in township four range nineteen is about a mile long and discharges its waters by a short stream into the Pishtaka.

Waukeesha is half a mile in diameter lying between Wind Lake and the Kenongamong.

The Pishtaka river or "Fox river of the Illinois" is the principal stream in this county running through the western tier of townships from north to south. It rises in the north part of Milwaukee county and enters the Illinois river at Ottawa. It has been proposed to improve the navigation of this river by means of dams and locks so as to create a slack water from its mouth where it is connected with the Illinois and Michigan canal as far as the rapids at Prairieville: and there is no practicable difficulty in the way of accomplishing this important work. From the foot of the rapids at Prairieville [there] to Elgin, about

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