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Show 4551 Freeman- D 2570 " Since this case was presented, we have examined with some care such geographies and histories of Wisconsin as we could obtain from the library of congress to ascertain if possible the real character of the Fox river." So it would seem that in that case, on the very question of navigability, the court of its own motion, without testimony before it in the record, examined the geography and histories of Wisconsin. Son on this question of historical matter the court is evidently inclined to be somewhat liberal. I won't make a ruling on any of these books until the whole books are offered. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Mr. Freeman, in your investigation of Colorado river did you find that any of the Indian a in and about the Colorado river ever used the river for transportation? A Only on the lower river, as far as I know, below the Grand canyon, where they always did boat, and do to this day. On the upper river there was no evidence they had every boated the way the Indians have on the other rivers where the explorers used them. May I add, in Powell's investigation in preparation for his voyage, that point came up clearly in his endeavor to find boatmen among the Indians. No one could tell him anything |