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Updated: May 27, 2025

Any person looking at the map's of the region bounding the great lakes of North America will be struck by the absence of rivers flowing into Lakes Superior, Michigan, or Huron from the south; in fact, the drainage of the states bordering these lakes on the south is altogether carried off by the valley of the Mississippi-it follows that this valley of Mississippi is at a much lower level than the surface of the lakes.

Sir William Francis Butler - The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America