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ball- hence the name Ball river. The Indian name is Wazioju.

Black River (Sappah of the Indians) is an important tributary of the Mississippi, entering between Ball and Chippewa rivers. It is about two hundred yards wide at the mouth and maintains this width for fifty miles to the "Falls". At these falls, there is a descent of 22 feet in a distance of about 100 yards, affording water power at which about three millions of feet of lumber are annually made and being at the head of navigation, is supposed to be an important place.

Chippewa river (or Ojibwa, of the Indians) is, next to the Wisconsin the largest and most important tributary of the Mississippi, in the Territory. Like that stream it rises in Michigan in the country north of Lake Katakittekon (Vieux Desert) and running in a south west direction enters the Mississippi at the foot of Lake Pepin, where it is five hundred yards wide. The "Falls" are about 75 miles above the mouth; above which there are five other rapids. It receives the waters