| Milo Milton Quaife - 1913 - 522 Seiten
...of a league to the westward is a little lake a league and a half in length, divided into two parts by a beaver dam. From this lake issues a little stream which, after twining in and out for half a league across the rushes, falls into the Chicago River, which in turn empties into the Illinois.... | |
| Milo Milton Quaife - 1913 - 522 Seiten
...of a league to the westward is a little lake a league and a half in length, divided into two parts by a beaver dam. From this lake issues a little stream which, after twining in and out for half a league across the rushes, falls into the Chicago River, which in turn empties into the Illinois.... | |
| Chicago Historical Society - 1922 - 256 Seiten
...of a league to the westward is a little lake a league and a half in length, divided into two parts by a beaver dam. From this lake issues a little stream, which after twining in and out for half a league across the rushes, falls into the Chicago River, which in turn empties into the Illinois."... | |
| Chicago Historical Society - 1926 - 220 Seiten
...fixed, their course from the Des Plaines through Mud Lake to that place can readily be traced. The "little stream which after twining in and out among the rushes for half a league falls into the Des Plaines," as described by La Salle's letter, is positively identified as the course of the old... | |
| Robert Knight, Lucius Henry Zeuch - 1928 - 222 Seiten
...fixed, their course from the Des Plaines through Mud Lake to that place can readily be traced. The "little stream which after twining in and out among the rushes for half a league falls into the Des Plaines," as described by La Salle's letter, is positively identified as the course of the old... | |
| Libby Hill - 2000 - 324 Seiten
...channel [the Chicago River] formed by the junction of several small streams or gullies of the prairie. It is navigable about two leagues to the edge of this...beaver dam. From this lake issues a little stream [Portage Creek] which after twining in and out among the rushes for half a league falls into the Des... | |
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