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the Wisconsin river, thus avoiding the Portage and much circuitous navigation along the Neenah river.

Green Lake lies immediately east of Puckawa eight miles long by two broad, its waters deep and very clear. The bottom is covered with white pebbles, and wild rice or other vegetation does not [seem to] grow upon it, as upon most of the lakes about this portion of Wisconsin.

Little Green Lake lies four miles south of Green Lake, one and a half miles long by a mile wide with a circumference of about seven miles. The water is said to be very deep; "in the middle (says a correspondent of the Green Bay Republican) it has been rounded off to a depth of more than forty feet and no bottom found; in many places at a distance of twenty yards from the shore the water is from eight to twelve feet in depth, and remarkably pure. There is no visible inlet, and but one outlet, which is so inconsiderable, that it is in fact only a mere drain. The scenery around is picturesque

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