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Lake it has also been called Leaf river. It is navigable for canoes about a hundred miles. It was named by Hennepin who saw it in 1680.

The St. Louis river is the largest and most important tributary of Lake Superior in this Territory. It enters at the western extremity of the Lake or of Fond du Lac Bay; is a very crroked stream full of rapids and falls; but is much used by the travellers in passing from Lake Superior to the Upper Mississippi. At the mouth it is about one hundred and fifty yards wide; and immediately above the mouth it expands into a long narrow lake.

The Bois Brule (or Burnt Wood) river enters the lake twenty miles from Fond du Lac; about ninety four miles long, and navigable for canoes about eighty miles. It has its source in a [small] spring of very clear & cold water twenty yards across, situated near the Upper St. Croix lake. "From the Little Falls twenty two miles below its source