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Indian story, of their having destroyed an Animal, that by their description, must be a Crocodile or Alligator, some where in this River; The land about the Lake is very fertile abounding with Grapes, Plumbs, and other Fruits of a spontaneous growth; The Winnebagoes raise plenty of Indian Corn, Beans, Pumpkins, squashes, Water Melons and some Indian Tobacco; the Lake abounds with Fish, and in the fall of the Year with Geese and Ducks, particularly the Tiel Duck, is remarkable good and fat, I have known the last to cut an Inch in depth of fat on the neck, these Fowl are better than those near the Sea, as they get fat by feeding on the wild Rice that grows so plentifully in those parts. Sept. 29th. left the Winnebagoe Town, and about twelve miles from the Town, came to the place where the Fox River enters the Lake on the North side, when I proceeded up the Fox River, and on the seventh of October arrived at the great Carrying place, between the Fox and Occisconsin Rivers. The Fox River from the Winnebagoe lake to the Carrying place, has a pretty gentle current, and deep withall, from the Green Bay to the Carrying place is reckoned about one hundred and eighty miles, there is much rice ground about this River, in some places it is with difficulty that Canoes can pass, tho [[unclear]] of Rice are so large and thick; the Country is very fertile, and without a fault, excepting near the River, in some places it is rather too low, no part from the Winnebagoes to the Carrying place, is any ways heavy Timbered, and yet a tolerable supply for the utility of any number of inhabitants; on [[catchword]] this [[/catchword]]
