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the portage between Chicago Creek which empties into Lake 

 Michigan, and the River Depleine, a fork of the Illinois; thence 

 in a direct line to a point on Lake Michigan, ten miles north- 

 ward of the mouth of Chicago Creek; thence along the lake 

 to a point ten miles southward of the mouth of the said Chi- 

 cago Creek ; thence in a direct line to a point on the Kankakee, 

 ten miles above its mouth ; thence with the said Kankakee and 

 the Illinois River to the mouth of the Fox River and thence to 

 the beginning." 



CANOEING ON LAKE REINBERG. 



The old Indian trails many of which have developed into 

 highways for modern traffic and under the "good roads" cam- 

 paign instituted by the county commissioners have blossomed 

 forth as splendid boulevards furnish a perfect network of 

 communications between the different forest preserves. 



No surveyor or engineer of today could anticipate the needs 

 of two generations to come as did those uncivilized Indians 

 more than a century ago when they ''beat the path" for the 

 modern highways of today. For instance there is the heavily 

 travelled Green Bay Road which has sprung from the red men's 

 Green Bay trail. 



