PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 45 



size, enters the Missisippi in lat. 44° 52^ about ciglit miles 

 below the Falls of St. Anthony, which arc in 44° 58^ 40^', 

 as given by Nicollet. The whole length of this course is 

 470 miles. 



The St. Croix River has its extreme sources in Lakes 

 Nidjichwe, Miminis, Upper St. Croix, and other lakes that 

 lie very contiguous to and nearly surrounding the Kagino 

 Lake, which is the head water of the River Mashkeg, falling 

 into Lake Superior, and another small lake that gives rise to 

 the Wassakude, or Burnt Wood River, also a tributary of the 

 great lake. From these sources several branches flow, and 

 unite in one stream. It has a succession of rapids at about 

 fifty miles below the junction, and at about the same distance 

 below are falls, near the latitude of 45° 30^ From this point 

 to the Missisippi it is a handsome and navigable stream, and 

 expands into a lake called by the same name, by which it 

 becomes united to the Missisippi, in less than 100 miles from 

 the falls, in lat. about 44° 45'. 



The Chippeway River is composed of several branches, 

 the longest of which, called Manidowish, rises in several 

 small lakes north of 46°. It has falls below 45°, and after 

 a short course below them of fifty or sixty miles, unites with 

 the Missisippi, at the lower point of Lake Pepin. 



The euphoneous Mini Kette Kittigan, a small lake of 

 four or five miles in diameter, in lat. 46° 10', is the source 

 of the Wisconsin River ; which, with a winding course, and 

 a succession of rapids, rolls down a small stream till below 

 the latitude of 44° 30^, where it suddenly expands into a cir- 

 cular pool of a mile and a half or two miles in diameter at 

 tlie foot of the lower rapids ; and then, in a bed considerably 



