Wisconsin, a river of Wisconsin, rises on the northern frontier, and flows nearly 600 miles south and west to the Mississippi. It is broken by many rapids and falls, but is navigable to Portage City, where a short canal connects with the Fox River, so that there is steamboat communication between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 693
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