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358 Marquette Co.

and beautiful beyond description. On the north side for more than a mile in extent, the shore is composed of a beautiful white sandstone, rising in some instances perpendicularly to the height of probably seventy five or eighty feet. This stone possesses all the properties of the best griendstones brought into this Territory; and although some of it can be very readily broken with the hand, yet I struck some parts of the ledge I passed under it with a heavy spear, and I am of the opinion that it is firm enough for the best of either grind[stone] or sythe stones."

This county is bounded on the [east] west and north by the Neenah, and the only stream besides this of importance is one whose Indian name is

Keeshaynic river. It rises in the west part of [Dodge] Fond du Lac county and running west through the middle of Marquette county enters the Neenah, about a mile above Lake Puckawa. It is about thirty miles in length, and a short distance above the north expands into a long narrow lake.