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Show struction of the river by defendant 212 was prayed for . At pages 793-7 the following facts , among others , are recited : The river rises in Wisconsin and runs in a southerly direction through Lake and Cook Counties , Illinois , until it reaches Riverside , some eleven miles from the mouth of the Chicago River ; thence it takes a southerly direction through Cook and Will Counties to its confluence with the Kankakee River near the east line of Grundy County . Originally the river had a considerable quantity of swamp , marsh and bog at ( head head- head ) ¬ quarters and in Lake County and in portions of Cook County and there were a number of lakes developed in Lake County which are responsible for the name of that county . Beginning near Riverside there were a great number of water expanses and connecting straits or channels 150 feet to a quarter of a mile in width at ( places -places places ) and with varying depths up to 10 or 15 feet . These were formerly used as ice fields . Below the region just described , which extended for approximately 12 miles , there were a succession of ponds and shallow ( con- con ) nections in the rock . This whole stretch was described in the original land survey as a ( "succession succession ) of swamps , ponds , lakes , and marshes connected by currents . " Farther down there was a declivity at the rate of 7 feet per mile from a certain highway to the head of Lake Joliet , and still lower down there were some 10 miles occupied by pools , or Lake Joliet . Still farther down there came Lake Du Page , ( "some some ) 13 miles in length , with a width of about 350 feet on the average , and with a depth of 10 feet and upwards , these pools being connected by intermediate ( rapids" rapids ) like certain other rapids in the river referred to in the ( Court's Courts ) ( de- de ) scription of physical conditions . ( "The The ) proportion of the ( Des- Des ) plaines river itself from the end of the portage road to its mouth , or confluence with the Kankakee , that would consist of pools , would be about 60 per cent . " In its original state there was ( "at at ) the higher ( stages" stages ) sufficient water for a boat to go partially loaded from Romeo down to the head of Lake Joliet , ( "and and ) at the lower stages to go ( down doNvn ) light , but at the lower stages the cargo itself would require a transfer over the 11 miles from Isle la Cache to Mount Juliet . All the river below Lake Joliet would be navigated by discharging the cargo in part or wholly at ( Treat's Treats ) Island , and near the mouth of the river . " Notwithstanding the difficulty of navigation and the necessary portages and small connecting currents during low water , there was no time when the Desplaines , River ran absolutely dry . |