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Crawford County is watered by the Mississippi on the west, the Wisconsin on the south and several important streams in the interior, the chief of which are the Chippewa, Black, Red Cedar, L'eau Claire, Temple a a l'eau, Ball, Bad Axe, and Kickapoo. These rivers are navigable for small boats from their mouth a greater or less distance to their "Falls"; where their waters appear to be interrupted by a ridge or dyke of primative or trap rocks. These points are hence becoming important as the seat of valuable mill power and the head of navigation, and already about thirteen millions of feet of lumber [are] is annually made and sent down the Mississippi. During the year 1843 a road was opened from Prairie du Chien by way of the Falls of Black and Chippewa rivers to La Pointe on Lake Superior, under the direction of Hon. A. Bronson. The south part of this county consists of a ridge running north and south [from] on which the waters of the Mississippi and Upper Wisconsin take their rise. For a distance of eighty or a hundred miles this ridge is not broken by any valley. The

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