IXTRoDI UTOItt MEMORANDA. 



ita at which tlii' waters of the Missississippi river, 

 communicate, by interlocking rivers and portages, with the lakes, are the 

 > from south to north, camel} , 

 I. !!\ the Illinois and C . (with Lake Michigan.) 



■-. By the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers, (with Green Bay.) 

 S, B) the Chippewa and M r Mauvais) Rivers, (with Lake 



Superior.) 



!. Bj the St. <'• \ • ii'i Burntwood (orBrule) Rivers, (do.) 

 5* B3 the S ivanne and St. Louis Rivers, (do.) 

 The routes by the Illinois, and by the Wisconsm, were first laid open 



d for Cannes and flat-bottomed 



!><>ats in their natn.*d state, and without any practical tmpro\ emenl n\ hich 



communication, about a hundred and sixty years. 



> familiar in 1 ]''>"' have been so much explored, 



and an ] prominent points for effecting canal and 



d that curly and efficient mca- 

 tak< n for opening t ; . 

 a Chippewa (or Sauteaus ;ly known, 



and has never been fully and accurately delineated anddi scribed. It is 

 a long river, ed branches, which spread over 



or midland y. Thej are connected, at dis- 



tant points, with - of the S , 1 and the W 



M shkee, the Montreal, and the Onton- 

 .- and w it f 1 the Monomonee, and the 

 . of Fox River of Green Bay. The portages are< 



rable altitudes above both the x i ppiand 



th< i are impracticable fo 



in ! ".' i the Chip] ewa R vet to th l I 



Fork. M- of it. on the map 



published in London, - 

 l, and Fi I '. ' 



lineated tl 



( ied the 



of the 

 Chippewa, up t 



by a .1 Branch of tl 



up that branch, 



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