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Cassville (Mines No 7), a post town on the Mississippi river in Grant County about 35 m. below P. du Chien. [twenty five] 30 miles below the mouth of the Wisconsin; at the foot of a steep river bluff two hundred feet high, [and] immediately below the mouth of a small stream, and on a beautiful plain fifteen feet above the water and four hundred yards wide. There are some fifty buildings including a large hotel built by the proprietors of the town. It is estimated to be 505 miles above St. Louis.

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Catfish River or River of the Four Lakes, originates in the Four Lakes in Dane County and running in a south east direction enters Rock river eleven and a half miles below the foot of Lake Koshkonong. It is in general a wide and deep stream and may easily be made navigable for small steam boats. According to Capt. Cram there are two principal rapids; one called "Dunkirk Falls" has a fall of six feet in a distance of six thousand six hundred and sixty feet- the others [below] has a fall of seven and one third feet in a distance of five thousand three hundred feet. There are twenty three other slight rapids below Dunkirk Falls.

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