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Nagowicka Lake-One of the small lakes, about two and a half miles long in the western part of Milwaukee County. The scenery around this lake is quite beautiful,-the shores are high and rounded hills, covered with scattered burr oak trees, and a small island called Juniper Island adorns the lake. Its surface is three hundred and four feet above that of Lake Michigan. It lies in the town of [Warren] Nemahabin; Bark river runs through it. Periphery 5 m. 27 ch- Greatest length 2 m. 26 ch. area 690 acres Greatest width 66 chains-average width 37.

Namecum-Sturgeon lake [illegible].

Namakagon River, a large branch of the St. Croix river from the east, entering about thirteen miles [from] above the mouth of the Yellow River. It originates in the Matted Hair Lake near the sources of the Mauvaise river of Lake Superior about one hundred and sixty miles above its mouth. It is also connected by a portage with the waters of the Chippewa. This river at its junction with the St. Croix is the largest [of the two] stream. Should be called St C

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