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Pecagama Falls of. On the Mississippi river one hundred and fifty miles below Sandy Lake, and seven hundred and fifty miles above the falls of St. Anthony, where the channel of the river is contracted to eighty feet in width. It is the uppermost of a series of rapids on this great river, above which it is bordered by swamps for a great distance. It is occasioned by a ledge of quartz rock; the portage around it is two hundred and fifty yards; and the fall is estimated at twenty or thirty feet in a distance of one hundred yards, but it is at no place perpendicular.

Peck's Rapids-On the Beaver Dam.

Peemonushkwa river a branch of Pawaugan or Wolf river from the east.

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