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top left4 The little solatary old "Red house" is exactly under the point of the bluff, with a little garden spot cleared in the cave side. We stopped at the Rtt. landing, but the clerk going ashore to confer with the solitary man, probably found it was not the place for his freight.

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Johnsons 69 Miles A little log house & two board shanties, one apparently a store, right under the bluff. No way to get up to be seen Just above an Island, wooded between that R. Iowa shore a very narrow bayou, or mouth of stream. Distance cords make no landing from there to Columbus 29 Miles Pleasant River in Milo & Brownville looks like the Mississippi here, on a small scale without the bluffs. Islands, Islands, Willow Islands, Elm Islands, Oak Islands. River valley very wise 1 to 3 Miles say. Iowa side wooded rocky bluffs. Wisconsin is grassy, scattering trees- grassy slope up 100 ft. or more then perpendicular wall of rick 10. 20. 30 ft or more in caves, grassy & trees above. Above? for a while, these qualities seem to Change then again above the mouth of a beautiful brook, on Wisconsin side among pretty hills, it becomes as before These grassy sloping bluffs with the occasional terraced wall, are beautiful exceedingly. Oh if I only had another pair of eyes to look with Some of the way there these terraced walls look as if they must have been built up by the hand of man. Enormous Protection walls, built up by the giants of long gone ages against this Father of Waters. As if he used once to rise in his pride 100 ft. or so upon their sides. How their battlements frown upon us , Now they rise like Castles over our heads, there must be the mighty residences of those giants.