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this year, (1840) from the 20th to the 28th October, the mercury in Fahrenheits Thermometer ranged as low as from nine to twelve degrees below freezing, and for several days during the latter part of October, it was continually snowing. On the return of our party Sandy Lake outlet had become so much frozen as to make it necessary to drag the canoes on the ice, and the ice was making very fast in all the lakes and streams; this, on the very last days of October." The Lac Vieux Desert is about three miles in its extreme length from north to south, and is very irregular in form.

Keeshaynic river rises in the west part of Fond du Lac county near the sources of Doty's river, and running west enters the Neenah in Marquette county one mile above Lake Puckaway. It is about thirty miles in length, and passes through a long narrow lake lying south of the upper end of Puckaway lake.