p. 711

"the portion of the river just [before] entering the Lake has such form depth and width as to afford a capacious and very convenient basin. At the head of navigation of Root river a few miles above its mouth, there occurs a series of rapids over a limestone bed; these rapids afford water power, such that a large amount of business may be done. There is a reef of rocks in the Lake in front of the town about a mile and a half long and about half a mile in its greatest breadth. This is supposed by Capt. Cram to be [in] a highly useful as protecting the harbor from the effects of storms-but it is by navigation, considered rather a dangerous place to approach, especially in a gale when it might be impossible to enter the harbor on account of these rocks. Companies have been incorporated to construct two rail roads to terminate at Racine; one extending to Janesville on Rock River-

18 miles north of state line (Cram)
26 " south of Milwaukee
24 " Rochester
65 " Janesville
150 " Sinipee
by U.S. Road