632 EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



WHITEFISII RIVER. 



Its lengtli is about seventy miles; its -width tifteea miles from the mouth 

 about seventy-five feet; it is rapid and runs over rocky bottom and sandy 

 flats; there are !io mills; the shores are covered with heavy timber. 



STURGEON AND FISH DAM RIVERS. 



These streams are very similar in character to the Whiteflsh River. 



MONISTIQUE RIVER. 



The length of this river is about seventy-five miles ; it has sources in 

 large lakes ; its width at the mouth is about one hundred and fifty feet ; 

 forty rods from the mouth there are rapids and a mill-dam, and still 

 higher up marshes and lakes. 



SEUL CIIOIX RIVER. 



This is a small brook, six miles Mcst of the point, twenty feet wide ; it is 

 rapid and about twelve inches deep ; it heads in a lake one and one-fourth 

 miles from Lake Micbigan, and runs through dense swamps. 



There is another small stream three miles north of Seul Choix Point ; t- 

 it is twenty-five feet wide at the mouth ; there are six inches of water on 

 the bar outside ; it is shoal and rapid ; on the upper portion, there is 

 heavy timber; it heads in a lake four miles from the mouth. 



One-half mile farther east is a small stream thkty feet wide at the 

 mouth ; it flows over flat limestone rock into Lake Michigan; it widens 

 to about one hundred feet, and beyond this higher up it is shallow, rocky, 

 and rapid; heavy timber covers the banks; it heads in a lake; it is deep 

 enough at the mouth to float a small boat. 



The more northerly streams I have mentioned are clear and cold. The 

 fish inhabiting all of them are principally pike, dory, pickerel, perch, 

 sturgeon, black-bass, catfish, and sunfish. 



I cannot recommend the Pensaukee or Oconto for salmon. The 

 Peshtigo is a good river if the dams can be overcome. I would judge 

 all of the others to be favorable for the experiment. 



J. F. INGALLS. 



J. W. MiLNER, Esq. 



E— CHARACTER OF iSOME OF THE NORTHERN TRIB- 

 UTARIES OF LAKE MICHIGAN. 



By James \V. Milxek. 



The streams here referred to tributary to Lake Michigan I have not 

 explored, but have gained some knowledge of their character from in- 

 quiry. 



The letter from Mr. J. F. Ingalls contains full information about the 

 more nothern rivers. The rivers here referred to are not in his list. 



The Pine River, emptying at Charlevoix, which I ascended fifteen miles, 



