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Wisconsin in 1820

the broad expanse of the river, the bannered masts of the vessels in the distant bay, and the warlike display of military barracks, camps, and parades. The scene burst suddenly into view and no combination of [circumstances] objects in the physiognomy of a country, could be more happily arranged, after so long a sojournment in the wilderness to recall at once to the imagination the most pleasing recollections of civilized life. The settlement now consists of sixty dwelling houses and give hundred inhabitants exclusive of the garrison. They are with few exceptions, French, who have intermarried with Indian women, and are said generally to be indolent, gay, intemperate, and illiterate. They are represented to have been subservient to the interests of the British, during the late war. This settlement is now the seat of Justice for Brown county in the Territory of Michigan, and the ordinary courts of law are established." Prairie du Chien, contained a similar population of about

Wisconsin in 1820

the broad expanse of the river, the bannered masts of the vessels in the distant bay, and the warlike display of military barracks, camps, and parades. The scene burst suddenly into view and no combination of [circumstances] objects in the physiognomy of a country, could be more happily arranged, after so long a sojournment in the wilderness to recall at once to the imagination the most pleasing recollections of civilized life. The settlement now consists of sixty dwelling houses and give hundred inhabitants exclusive of the garrison. They are with few exceptions, French, who have intermarried with Indian women, and are said generally to be indolent, gay, intemperate, and illiterate. They are represented to have been subservient to the interests of the British, during the late war. This settlement is now the seat of Justice for Brown county in the Territory of Michigan, and the ordinary courts of law are established." Prairie du Chien, contained a similar population of about