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Menomonee river

The bed of the river throughout is exceedingly rocky, and its banks in many places particularly at the falls and principal rapids consists chiefly of rock; it does not overflow its banks, which are generally quite bold. The valley of the Menomonee contains much good land, and is, in the main much better than is generally supposed. The country adjacent to the upper part of the Menomonee for about thirty miles on both sides, has an exceedingly descolate appearance; all the timber which was once pine has been consumed by fire as far as the eye [can] could reach on every side. The prospect is one of a broken landscape of barren hills studded here and there with charred pine stubs, with scarce a living tree except the second growth of white birth and poplar. The soil of the hills is rocky and unfit for cultivation."
Within this "Burnt District" there are two perpendicular falls about a mile apart and about nine feet in height; and at the termination of that district is the Big Quinnessec Falls where there is a difficult

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196

Menomonee river

The bed of the river throughout is exceedingly rocky, and its banks in many places particularly at the falls and principal rapids consists chiefly of rock; it does not overflow its banks, which are generally quite bold. The valley of the Menomonee contains much good land, and is, in the main much better than is generally supposed. The country adjacent to the upper part of the Menomonee for about thirty miles on both sides, has an exceedingly descolate appearance; all the timber which was once pine has been consumed by fire as far as the eye [can] could reach on every side. The prospect is one of a broken landscape of barren hills studded here and there with charred pine stubs, with scarce a living tree except the second growth of white birth and poplar. The soil of the hills is rocky and unfit for cultivation."
Within this "Burnt District" there are two perpendicular falls about a mile apart and about nine feet in height; and at the termination of that district is the Big Quinnessec Falls where there is a difficult

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