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Rivers

Hamilton's Creek a small tributary of Green Bay from the west. It enters a few miles north of Grassy Point.

Kewaunee river a tributary of Lake Michigan, entering immediately east from the southern extremity of Green Bay. It is about twenty=five miles long and drains about one hundred and twenty square miles of surface. It is said to be navigable for vessels drawing twelve feet, for a distance of five and a half miles from its mouth, to a place where it has worn a channel for itself through a limestone ledge, and affords good water power. It is the most northerly stream on the west side of the lake at which a good harbor can be constructed.

Manitoo river (or as it is vulgarly called, Devil river) rises near the south line of the county and running parallel and within two or three miles of the Neenah river, for a distance of twenty miles, enters that river near its mouth. This peculiar tendency of several streams and lakes to parallelism is probably owing to some peculiar arrangement of