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(says Lieut. Allen) this river winds through a deep ravine between high pine topped hills the sides of which next the river are thickly grown over with cedar, pine, tamarack and bushwood. Near the mouth of the river the hills rise very steeply and the growth is mostly cedar. In some places the forest has slid off exposing a bare bank of red clay of considerable [extent] height. Where rock occurs in place on this river it is sandstone.

The Mauvaise, (bad) river of the French- The Mushkee (swamp) river of the Indians is the most considerable tributary of Lake Superior east of the Bois Brule entering about half way between LaPointe and the mouth of the Montreal, at a place where the shore of the lake is sandy for several miles each way- an an unusual thing on the coast of this lake. Its head waters are near a large branch of the St. Croix affording a canoe route across the country. Waters obstructed by rufts of timber.

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