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431 Mississippi River

Four hundred and fifty miles below the Falls just described the river receives from the west the DeCorbean (crow wing) river-or Kayiwigwam of the Indians, the largest tributary above the St. Peters; and three hundred miles below this point is the well known Falls of St. Anthony, where the Mississippi tumbles over a perpendicular ledge of rock eighteen [or twenty] feet high. Nine miles below, the St. Peters comes in, also from the west; a very large and important stream. Below this the St. Croix, Chippewa and Wisconsin rivers on the east and the Iowa and Turkey rivers on the west- all very considerable rivers- contribute to [swell?] the waters of the "Great River". In this part of the river is that beautiful expansion of it, known as Lake Pepin, twenty one miles long, with an average breadth of two and a half miles. The water here fills the [the] whole valley between the bluffs, and is, owing to the strong current, very easily thrown into heavy swells by

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