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7637. RIVER, Illinois.—

The Illinois is a
fine river, clear, gentle, and without rapids; insomuch
that it is navigable for bateaux to its
source. From thence is a portage of two miles
only to the Chicago, which affords a bateau
navigation of sixteen miles to its entrance into
Lake Michigan.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 255. Ford ed., iii, 93.
(1782)