Something Singular: Wisconsin And Fox Rivers

These rivers neer Fort Winnebago on the WisconsiD, run parallel to eacli other, though in different directions. The distance between each is but one müe nnd a quarter. They are simply sepnrated by n plaifi or flat piece of ground, and what is rernarkable, in high water they run nto eoch othei and thus become united. Almosl ever since thè snow melted tliis spring, they have been thus connected. The flat separating them has been covered with water to the depth of four feet some say six - the present season, or BufBcient to adniit a steamboat to navigatë'up the Wis - consin, acros8 the fiat, and ihue flnds its way down the Fox river into fié Míchioran at Green Bay! Think of a steamboat startingfrom New Orleans, travelling. uj the Alississippi to the Wisconsin.-iheft up that stream to Fort Winnebngo; thence ac-oss and downthe Fox to lake Michigan: tlience throiiüh iakes Huron, St. Cliiir and Erie to Bufialo; und then ij there was a steamboac canal, as was contemplated, to Albany; throngh lliat to New York city; after piyinga visit to several of the Eastcrn cities, to return to New Orleans, via the Atlanñc and the Gulf of Mexico! What an affair t would be to talk about. And yet such a tiing is by no nieans impracticable. Smoll botts have often crossed the flat from Wisconsin to the Fox, and have ín this way gone from tie Mississippi to lake Michigan. A canal coild easily be constructed, one mile and a quater in length, which would mo3t effectuallyunite the waters of the Mississippi with tboseof the Great Lakes.-