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On reaching Twelve-mile Creek, we found a yoke of steers of 

 H., in a pen, which had been tied there two days and nights with- 

 out water. He evinced, however, an obliging disposition, and, 

 after refreshing ourselves and our horses, we left him to complete 

 the labors of a "local habitation." The intermediate route to 

 Fort Winnebago afforded few objects of either physical or mental 

 interest. The upland soil, which had become decidedly thinner 

 and more arenaceous, after reaching the Lake, appears to increase 

 in sterility on approaching the "Wisconsin. And the occurrence 

 of lost rocks (primitive boulders), as Mr. B. happily termed them, 

 which are first observed after passing the Blue Mound, becomes 

 more frequent in this portion of the country, denoting our ap- 

 proach to the borders of the northwestern primitive formation. 

 This formation, we have now reason to conclude, extends in an 

 angle, so far south as to embrace a part of Fos River, above 

 Apukwa Lake. 



Anticipated difficulties always appear magnified. This we veri- 

 fied in crossing Duck Creek, near its entrance into the Wisconsin. 

 We found the adjoining bog nearly dry, and drove through the 

 stream without the water entering into the body of the wagon. 

 It here commenced raining. Having but four miles to make, and 

 that a level prairie, we pushed on. But the rain increased, and 

 poured down steadily and incessantly till near sunset. In the 

 midst of this rain-storm we reached the fort, about one o'clock, 

 and crossed over to the elevated ground occupied by the Indian 

 Department, where my sojourn, while awaiting the expedition, 

 was rendered as comfortable as the cordial greeting and kind 

 attention of Mr. Kinzie, the agent, and his intelligent family, could 

 make it. 



A recapitulation of the distances from Galena makes the route 

 as follows, viz : Gratiot's Grove, fifteen miles ; ^Villow Springs, 

 fifteen ; Mineral Point, seven ; Dodgeville, nine ; Porter's Grove, 

 nine ; Blue Mound, nine ; Duck Creek, ten ; Lake, ten ; Twelve- 

 mile Creek, twenty-four; Crossing of Duck Creek, eight; and 

 Fort Winnebago, four ; total, one hundred and twenty miles. 



H. R. S. 

 To Geoege p. Morris, Esq., New York. 



