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From thence up to near its source it has no banks; but 

 little current; and in many places where it is 50 to 100 

 rods wide, and 3 to 6 feet deep, it grows entirely over 

 with grass, so as to check its current during the summer 

 season, and cause it to be the highest at times when all 

 other streams are the lowest. On each side it is bordered 

 with marsh and timber with but one or two places 

 where the dry land comes in on both sides opposite, so as 

 to allow a road to cross. 



One of the largest tributaries of the Kankakee, is 

 Yellow river, which comes in from the South East, cross- 

 ing the Michigan road at Plymouth, forty miles north of 

 Logansport. This is a fine mill stream — is bordered 

 by excellent land, most of which is heavy timbered, the 

 lumber of which in a few years will be transported by 

 water into Lake Michigan, and also furnishing the 

 Prairies through which a canal will pass, with building 

 and fencing materials, and being furnished in return 

 with lime, salt, iron, coal, &c. 



The country south of the Kankakee does not compare 

 in fertility, or facility of market with that north, yet 

 a great portion of it will be densely settled. Some of it 

 will be valuable on account of timber. Iroquois river, 

 (called in the country "Rockwise," and laid down on the 

 late maps as the "Pickamink,") which empties into the 

 Kankakee 15 miles west of the State line, is bordered 

 with walnut and other valuable timber east of the State 

 line, and affords excellent mill seats and sufficient water 

 to take the lumber to a good market — the rich Prairies 

 below. 



The whole of the Pattawattamie country, although 

 long considered by many in the south part of the state 

 as hardly worth purchasing, will eventually support a 

 greater population, and add more wealth to Indiana 

 than any other tract of the same size in any part of the 

 State. Population, the very fountain of wealth to a 

 new State, is flowing in here from Maine, New Hamp- 

 shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti- 



