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them, and when they supposed the distance and situation, sufficient to elude the researches of the Spaniards, they left this ponderous metal, and mounted the horses, to ease their weary legs; he further informed me the horses were shod with the same metal, and the Bridles had much of the same upon upon them. This I suppose to be the Carravan which brings the silver which the Spaniards get from the mountains on the heads of the Colorado River, which falls into the Gulph of Callifornia, and those plains are the land Carriage from thence to the heads of the River. St. Tee, on Rio del nord, that enters the Gulph of Mexico to the West of the Mississippi. The Winnebagoes can raise about two hundred Warriors, their Town has about fifty houses, strongly built with Palisades, the Island on which it is built contains about fifty acres, and is about thirty five miles, as the River runs, from the Green Bay. The River for about four or five miles from the Bay, has a pretty gentle currant, after that, the whole way to the Winnebago Lake, it is full of rocks and very rapid, and at many places we were obliged take out our Canoes and draw them round by land, the width of the River in general from the Green Bay to the Winnebago Lake, is between seventy and a hundred Yards; the Land in general is very good and light Timbered, with Hickory, Oak and Hazel. The Winnebago Lake is about fifteen miles long from East to West, and six Miles wide; at the South West corner, comes in a River, which takes its rise near some of the northern branches of the Ilinois River, this River, I called the Crocodile River, in consequence of an [[catchword]] Indian [[/catchword]]