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356 Marquette Co.

In 1840 there was in Marquette County 5 horses, 45 meat cattle, & 20 swine; 100 bushels of oats, 100 of buckwheat, 320 of potatoes, and 20 tons of hay, were the products of the preceeding year.

There is no post office in the county.

There are three lakes of considerable size in the county, and [five] six of less importance. The principal:

Buffalo Lake an expansion of the Neenah river at the north west angle of the county, commencing nineteen miles below the Portage and extending eleven and one fourth miles, it is narrow, and the water is shallow, being mostly filled with wild rice.

Puckawa Lake is another expansion of the Neenah river, about seven miles long and two broad, and about forty miles by the course of the river below the Portage. The village of Marquette is laid out on the south side of this lake; and a company has been incorporated to construct a canal from this place to Dekorra on