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Brown County- This county abounds in forests of pine trees or "pineries" as they are called, especially west of Green Bay and the Neenah. The streams are full of "falls" and "rapids" affording abundance of water power where this pine is now in large quantities manufactured into lumber, shingles &c, which finds a ready market at Milwaukee and other ports on Lake Michigan. The country is well watered by the Neenah, Wolf, Oconto, Peshtego, Menomonee, Kewaunee, and numerous other smaller streams and branches, most of them yet without names. A very singular feature in the topography of this county is indicated by the course of these rivers. They all have a general south east direction towards Lake Michigan except the Neenah, which with Green Bay a continuation of it, runs at right angles to this course and nearly parallel with the general course of the lake. The cause of this feature may be found in a rocky ridge extending along the east side of the Neenah, giving direction to that river and "heading" all those that take their rise east of it. This ridge extends south west, through the Territory.

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