RIVERS & LAKES—BOOK I. 
WHITE R.-CHIENNE R.-R. A. JARUE-SIOUX R» 
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Might be reckoned the largest rivers any where else. The 
Little Missouri, (90 leagues above the Mandan villages) is re¬ 
markable for the quantity of mud which it carries clown. At 
the Maria river , a large stream which enters the Missouri two 
thousand miles up, the muddiness of the Missouri in some mea¬ 
sure ceases. 
There are several considerable rivers, between the Missouri 
and the N. western lakes. Red river is the principal; the Assinc- 
boin is its principal branch. The Mouse river, or Saskashawin, 
which flows into the Assineboin, is remarkable for taking its rise 
from the very bank of the Missouri 
The following, is a table of the navigable rivers of Louisiana; 
it is necessarily incomplete, but from it some rude conjecture 
can be formed as to the immense extent of navigation which it 
possesses. 
TABLE OF NAVIGABLE RIVERS IN LOUISIANA—^EXTENT OF 
NAVIGATION. 
Principal R. j Tributaries 
JYavi. 
Remarks, 
MISSISSIPPI.. 
Sang Sue . . 
Pike It. . . . 
des C.orbeaux 
St. Peters . „ 
Turkey R. 
Catfish R. 
des Moines 
Wayaeonda 
^auflione , 
Salt R. . . 
BufFaloe . 
Cuiyre . . 
Missouri . 
Marainek- 
St. Francis 
White R. , 
Arkansas . 
Red R. . . 
DESCOEBEAUX 
ST. PETERS.... 
DES MOINES... 
Leaf R. 
Blue Earth R. 
Red Wood R. 
Yellow Wood R 
Rackoon R. . . 
Red Cedar R. 
3,000 
80 
120 
300 
1,000 
By some considered the source 
of the Miss, heads in Leech lake, 
and is larger than the branch 
which rises in Red Cedar lake; 
considered the source of the a- 
bove mentioned river. 
800 About 250 miles above the mouth 
of the Missouri, not much known. 
150 
3,096 
350 
800 
1,100 
2,000 
2,500 
15,296 
180 
There is a portage of one mile 
from the head of (this river to the 
Otter Tail lake, the principal 
source of Red River of Winipec. 
