GENERAL VIEW.-BOOK 11. 
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however to fifty or sixty yards. It is about fifty miles in length.* 
Tms spring is full of the finest fish; bass, perch, pike, ancl others 
common in the western rivers. Besides this river, White river 
receives several others from one hundred and fifty to three hun¬ 
dred miles in length; as Eaux Cache', James river, Rapid John , 
and others known by various names. 
The country watered by this river haa only been traversed by 
Indians and hunters, and may be considered as still unexplored. 
It is spoken of with rapture by those who have seen it; it is de¬ 
scribed as being generally well wooded, and uncommonly abun¬ 
dant in springs and rivulets. The soil is said to be rich, though 
there are some places hilly and broken ; some of the hills might 
be more properly termed mountains. A hunter described to me 
three high and remarkable hills, about eight hundred miles up 
the river, standing on a plain, and perfectly unconnected with any 
ridge. They are each about a quarter of a mile in length, their 
form oblong; two stand parallel and the third across ; at a dis¬ 
tance, giving the appearance of three walls of some immense 
building. It has been called Jupiter’s Palace. Hunters agree in 
declaring that on the waters of this river, a country may be cho¬ 
sen, at least one hundred miles square, not surpassed by the best 
parts of Kentucky, and one of the best for settlements in the 
western world. 
ST. FRANCIS, 
Discharges itself into the Mississippi seventy-five miles 
above White river, and would be navigable but for rafts which 
impede its course, for nine hundred miles. The western branch 
rises with the waters of White river, and the eastern, which is 
the principal, interlocks with jpig river, of the Maramek. It is 
very erroneously laid down on the common maps; its general 
course is much further east: the principal branch in fact, rung 
nearly parallel with the Mississippi in its whole length, and sel¬ 
dom recedes more than fifty miles. It is a beautiful and limpid 
stream, passing through a charming country, but afterwards, 
though increased in size, by its junction with several other ri- 
* A town or village has been lately commenced at the mouth of thj£ 
tiver. 
