Rock River rises in the south-eastern portion of Wisconsin, and flows south into Illinois, thence south-west, and empties itself into the Mississippi 3 miles below Rock Island. Its course of 375 miles, much broken by falls, is through a region noted for its beauty and fertility.
Rock River
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 757
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