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VINEYARD went unpunished, and is now, I believe, in Cali-
fornia.
In 1836, Gov. DODGE had been appointed commissioner by
the General Government to hold a treaty with the Menomonee
Indians. The treaty was held at the Cedar Rapids, or Cedar
Point, on Fox ltiver; I~ENRY 8. BAIRD was Secretary to the
Commissioner; OSIIKOSII and all the leading Menornonee chiefs
were present. The Menomonees ceded to the Government
some four millions of acres west and north of Winnebago
Lake and Fox River; and a strip of country along Wisconsin
River, three miles in width on each side of the River, and
forty-eight miles in length-above the grant made to AMABLE
GRIONON; said tract to contain eight townships or 184,320
acres. This cession gave a new impulse to the settlement of
Northern Wisconsin; and doubtless led to the establishment of
the boundary line between Wisconsin and the State of Michi-
gan, which mas run under the direction of Capt. !I!. J. CRAM,
of the Topographical Engineers, during the summer of 1841.
He came to Green Bay, where he procured most of his men to
assist him, He employed me to take charge of the packers
and provisions. We left the Bay the flrst of June, went down
Grecn Bay as far as the moutll of the Menomonee River, where
we commenced the survey. We were four months in running
the line; nothing to eat but pork and bread. Quite a number
of our party got the scurvy, and suffered a great deal. We
did not see a white man during our four months absence,
except those conriected with the survey. Capt. CRAM had
employed an old Frenchman for a gtzide; and, on our return,
in order to correct our first survey, he sent me with the old
guide to loolr out a nearer course. We took but a small supply
of provisions, supposing that we could look out the route from
Montreal River to Lake Vieux Desert, and return to camp in
three days; but the old guide lost his way, and instead of three
days, we were absent seven, and mere nearly starved, eubsist-
ing a part of the time on roots and berries which we found,
and barely kept us alive. The entire country through which
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