220 ELEVATIONS 
their number and distribution. These are matters of considerable interest, in con- 
sequence of the influence which the presence of so great an assemblage of waters 
must exercise on the climate and productions of the region in which they are 
situated. 
The general level of the country, between Lake Superior and the Mississippi, is 
shown in the profile of the same, the former being taken as a base. These lines 
of level must be received as approximations only, as, in many instances, time 
would only allow of one or two barometrical observations being made, for the pur- 
pose of ascertaining heights. At most important points, however, the mean of 
from five to twenty observations was used in making the calculations; and in 
every calculation the mean of one month’s observations, at a single station on 
Lake Superior, was employed. The following table exhibits the elevations, as 
determined along some of the lines of observation :-— 
Section No. 1. 
FROM THE MOUTH OF THE CHIPPEWA TO THE MOUTH OF BAD RIVER. 
Mouth of the Chippewa, , . , 4 ; 25 
Dalles of the Chippewa cu top), . : : 722 
Chippewa Falls, : : : : : 403 
Vermilion Falls, . ; : : j ‘ ‘ 307 
Brunet’s Rasidns ; , ‘ ‘ ‘ ae , 382 
Mouth of Lac Courte Oreille River, ' ; ; 493 
Lac Courte Oreille See s Store-House), : : ; 581 
Lily Lake, ; : : 702 
Néinakaiion Poblape: ‘ ; : ‘ 585 
Four miles above N Sinshiaien Pdttegt § : : é 675 
North shore of Long Lake, . , ; ; : ‘ 721 
Alder Creek (portage), ; , ‘ 234 
Lower Rapids of the West Fork of Bad ver : ‘ ' 75 
Six miles above Bad River Mission, ; ; : : 54 
Section No. 2. 
FROM THE aa AT ST. PAUL'S, TO THE TRADING-HOUSE ON ST. LOUIS RIVER, 
EIGHTEEN MILES ABOVE FOND DU 
Mississippi, at St. Paul’s,  . é ‘ ‘ ; . 0 
Six miles south of Stillwater, ; ‘ ; : i 173 
One mile north of Stillwater, i i : ; ; , 250 
Nine miles north of Stillwater, , . ‘ ‘ , 146 
Fourteen miles north of Stillwater, 4 i ‘ ‘ 120 
Twenty-two miles north of Stillwater, ; . 122 
Top of Trap Dike, nine miles above the Falls of St. Chis, : : 466 
Three miles north of the mouth of Sunrise River, . : . 334 
Reed Creek, Pokegoma Trail, ! : , : 324 
Lake Pokegoma, : ‘ . 369 
Kettle River, Fond in Lac Trail to Vitesse: . , . 363 
Moose Lake, Fond du Lac Trail to Pokegoma, n P : 319 
Horn Lake, ‘ ; : : ; ; ‘ 439 
Fond du Lac Trail to Pokegoma, eighteen miles south of St. Louis River, 475 
Fond du Lac Trail to Pokegoma, two miles south of St. Louis — 269 
Bank of St. Louis River, at Trading-House, 21 
