Excerpt from Geographical and Statistical History of the County of Winnebago: With Interesting Incidents Among the Aborigines and Pioneer Settlers; With Twelve Illustrations; To Which Is Prefixed a General View of the State of Wisconsin, Together With a Census Table From Its First Settlement to the Present Time When we look upon the broad expanse of a mighty River; after contemplating its width and depth and the velocity of its current, which pours its world of waters into the bosom-of the great deep, the mind naturally floats up the majestic stream in search of the great fountain whence it flows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.