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Mineral District or Mineral region-terms applied to that part of the Territory abounding in ores of lead, copper, &c. including the counties of Grant, Iowa, and the western portions of Green and Dane.

Mineral creek, a stream with very numerous branches lying principally in towns sixteen in range two east in Iowa county. It enters the Wisconsin at Buchman [nearly opposite the mouth of Pine river].

Milwaukee P. Office Brown Co. between Oshkosh & Kakalin.

Missisawgaiegan-the Indian name for Rum river See Rum river.

Mississippi River. This mighty stream, the "Father of Waters" forms the western boundary of Wisconsin from Latitude forty one degrees and thirty minutes (the north line of Illinois) to its source. It akes its rise in ithasca Lake from which it

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