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Bois Creek, a small branch of Grant river in Grant county lying principally in towns three, range three west. Its main and eastern branches rising in Bois prairie.

Bois Blaine (Whitewood) Lake-(See Whitewood Lake)

Bois Prairie, a prairie in Grant county north of Potosi lying between the waters of Bois creek and the Platte river ten miles long and one or two miles wide. The rich black soil on this prairie varies from two to four feet in depth, and the clay under the soil is twenty feet deep bedded on flint and limestone. The timber around it consists of the best kind of white, red, and black oak, white and black walnut, lynn, hickory, maple, ash, cherry, iron wood, quaken aspen, &c. &c.

Bois Brule (or Burnt Wood) River; an important tributary of Lake Superior from the south, entering at the foot of a smal bay fifteen miles from Cranberry river, and twenty one miles from Fond du Lac. It is connected at its source by a short portage with the St. Croix river of the Mississippi and thus forms [part of] a route much traveled by Indians &

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