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Fallen Rocks- on the Wisconsin a little below Helena where the river has undermined the strata, and a mass of sandstone about thirty feet high and two hundred feet long has fallen off from the body of the rocks.

Fever river rises in Elk Grove in Iowa county and running south enters the Mississippi in Illinois seven miles below Galena, the great depot for the lead trade. The river was named after a Frenchman (La Fever) and not on account of the prevalence of fever in its vicinity; and its Indian name of Mekobea (small pox river) is equally unfortunate for the reputation of this stream for healthfulness.

Fever river, a town or precinct in Iowa county established in 1839.

Finch; the former name of Koshkonong in Jefferson county embracing town five ranges thirteen and fourteen see Population in 1840-143.-

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