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Quinnesec Falls (Big)- On the Menomonee river of Green Bay at the fort of the "Burnt District", where there is a difficult portage of one and a half miles; the total fall in this distance in the river is one hundred and thirty four feet. "This amount (Says Capt. Cram) is divided into several chutes with interesting rapids. The several aspect of this series of water falls is exceedingly picturesque; at every change of the point of view, new and varied beauties are perceived; but the lower falls of the series is by far the most magnificent of all the cascades of the Menomonee; here the whole river is seen in a terrible frenzy, dashing in mighty masses of foam over a perpendicular wall of rocks forty feet in height". [I]

Quinnesec Falls (Little)- On the Menomonee river of Green Bay the next below the Big Quinnesec Falls "where the fall is about thirty five feet in an extent of two hundred and fifty feet; and the total width of the river is only about eighty five feet. Here the bed and banks of the river are composed of slate rock. The

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