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Rum River (Ishkode-wabo, or Missisagaregon of the Indians), is the next important tributary of the Mississippi river in Wisconsin above St. Croix; entering fourteen miles above the Falls of St. Anthony. It is sixty yards wide at the mouth and navigable for anoes about one hundred and fifty miles. It rises near the St. Louis river of Lake Superior and passes through Spirit Lake, a sheet of water twelve miles long four wide containing several islands: the water is transparent and like most of the lakes in Wisconsin abounds in fish. The Mille Lac former the source of a considerable branch of Rum river by which the navigation is connected by a portage of one mile with the upper Mississippi. This lake or rather group of lakes is about twenty miles in diameter.

Saint Francis river (Wicha-niva of the Indians) enters a short distance above Rum river (a branch [it] runs [some] nearly parallel with the Mississippi and hance [has been] called Parallel River); and as it has one of its sources in Leaf

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