Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1838-05-26
APPROVED. April Goth. 1888.

! The NORTHERN wATERs.---lhe steamboat
" isconsin. arrived here on Sunday last from
the Fort Winnehago portage. on the Wiscon-
sin river. .ab,mt 600 miles above Prairie du
Chen. The Wisconsin is represented 10 haze
sufficient water for the purposes of navigation.
but the numerous sand-bars and the want Of ex.
perienced pilots, render The navigation some
what difficult and perplcxing. This region OF
country possesses peculiar interest, from the
consideration tina, The navigabIe waters Of the
great Chain Of northern lakes and the Mssis.
sppi approach at this point, within few miles
Of each other. Here, indeed. the mighty Mis-
sissippi and the st. Lawrence in,erlock and
mingle their waters. Here, also, they seper.
ate, and after mighty sweep of three or four
thousand miles each, they again, through the
influence Of the Gulf stream, rush together in
ocean waves on the hanks Of Newfoundland.
! IA the time the Wisconsin was a, Fort VIM
nebago. the water was flowing from the Fox
River, which, emp,ies into Green Bay---an arm
Of Lake Michigan-.-across im,o the Wisconsin
river .canal af a few miles in length at this
point. will complete the chain Of inland raw
cation from New Orleans 10 New York, a
distance OF about three thousand miles.
Having before us Mr.. Fealherstonaush's re.
pori Of Geological Reconnaissance made in
1895. from Washington, by the way of Green
Bay and the Wisconsin Territory 10 The Co.
Coteau de Prairie, an elevated ridge dividing
the st. Peters from the Missouri River 1--WE
propose 10 make few extracts in relation 10
a section Of our country which is daily acqu-
ring new interest.
Al Rush Lake, on Fox River, there were Sc
veral thousand acres Of tho Zizania or wild
rice together. two miles in ono direction and
five or six in another. resembling an immense
field Of wheat. From Fort Winnebago there
is PORTAGE TO the Wisconsin river Of about
$500 yards, and in times Of high water. canors
occasionally pass from one river to the other.
On approaching the :,outh Of the Wisconsin.
the right bank Of the Mississippi appears n
bout $50 feet high, and the river perhaps 900
yards wide, with the wild rice continuing a.
long lis hanks. At Prairie du Chen, there
is continuous escarpment Of calcareous rocks.
from three 10 four hundred feet high. Some
distance above this poin, is an important stream
called Black River, down which, great deal
Of fine pine timber is fioated. The country
her, is remarkable FORTS fertility and beauty
About hundred miles above Prairie du Chi
en-, the Chippeway river enters The Missss;p-
pi from the east, having its sources in ,le
FIambeau and Courteoriele Lakes. This riv
er is four or FIVE hundred yards wide where it
joins the Mississippi, and the volume Of water
is said to be great for sixty or seventy miles.
At the Falls Of this river. there is great a.
mount Of wafer power. There are also large
tracts Of land covered will, pine, which will be
exceedingly valuable.
In future number NO shall resume our
journey with Mr.. Featherstonhaugh through
Lake Pepin 10 the Falls Of st. Anthony. and
up the st. Peters river TO the Coteau de Prairie.