p. 407

428 St. Croix Co.

The Montreal river does not appear from the recent surveys to be so large and important a stream as has been supposed. It heads some considerable distance west of the Lac Vieux Desert (Lake Katakittekon), is full of rapids and falls, especially towards its mouth, and is scarcely navigable for canoes. About eighty [or ninety] yards from the mouth, or entrance into the Montreal Bay there is a rapid with a descent of some eighty or ninety feet, including one perpendicular pitch or fall of forty feet. It forms part of the boundary between Wisconsin and Michigan.