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365 Portage County

As at present is one of the largest in the Territory. Its boundaries may be traced as follows: begin at the south east corner of township ten, in range twelve, and run west along the township line to the middle of the Wisconsin river, thence up the river to the west line of range eight; thence north until that line again crosses the middle of the Wisconsin; thence up the river to the north line of township thirteen; thence west to the west line of range two [west] east; thence north to the Territorial line; thence eastwardly along that line to the east line of range nine; thence south to the Neenah river; thence up that river to the north line of [range] township thirteen; thence east to the east line of range twelve; and thence south twenty four miles to the place of beginning.

That part of the county lying east of the Neenah and Wisconsin rivers is twenty four miles [long] wide from north to south and averages twenty five and three fourths miles long, with an area of [five] six hunred and [twenty] eighteen miles. The remainder

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