Chapter VII: Douglass, p. 206

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Douglass County.

The "mineral range" as it is called is a range of trap rock extending through the country parallel with and a few miles south of Lake Superior. In this range are series of native copper which have already been proved to some extent, and which will hereafter become sources of great wealth to the state.

As the public surveys have only been made in a small part of the county we are ignorant of the minute details of the length & courier of the streams, and of the number and extent of the small lakes. The St. Louis river and the Left Hand river (River a Gouche) enters Lake Superior at its western extremity, forming a fine harbor and affording a site for the town of Superior which it is predicted will soon grow to a great city.

The Bois Brule (or Burnt Wood) river enters Lake Superior in this county twenty miles from the mouth of the St. Louis. It is about ninety four miles long, and navigable for canoes about eighty miles. It has its source in a spring of very clear and cold water; twenty yards across, and situated near the upper St. Croix lake.