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THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. 189 of access, (see sailing directions.) The river affords an extensive water power, capable of giving motion to machinery of almost any required amount. The city is built upon beautiful slopes, descending towards the river and lake. It has the usual complement of govern- ment buildings and schools, three orphan asylums, and forty-five churches, etc. Its exports of lumber, agricultural produce, etc., are immense, giving profitable employment to a fleet of vessels and steamers. 'The growth of this city has been astonishing; twenty- five years ago it was a wilderness, now it contains between fifty and sixty thousand inhabitants, and of a class inferior to no section of the Union for intelligence, sobriety and industry. The approach to Milwaukee Harbor is very imposing, lying between two headlands covered with rich foliage, and dotted with splendid residences. This city, no doubt, is destined to become the favored residence of opulent families who are. fond of congregating in favored localities. GREEN BAY, One of the most favored cities of Wisconsin, the capital of Brown county, is advantageously situated near the mouth of Fox or Neenah river, at its entrance into Green Bay, where is a good and secure harbor. It lies 90 miles southwest from Lake Michigan, by water, 25 miles due west of Kewaunee, on the west shore of Lake Michigan, and 115 miles north from Milwaukee. The town is hand- somely situated, and contains many large warehouses and elegant residences, together with several churches, hotels, and stores of dif- ferent kinds, and about 5,000 inhabitants. The improvement of Fox River by dams and locks, in connection with the improvements on the Wisconsin River, affords an uninterrupted steam navigation from Green Bay to Prairie du Chien, on the Mississippi River-- thus making Green Bay a great point for the transhipment of goods and produce of every variety ; the largest class steamers and propel- lers running to Chicago on the south, Sault Ste. Marie on the north, as well as to Collingwood, to Sarnia, to Detroit, and to Buffalo on the east. 'The lumber trade of Green Bay is immense, this whole section of country abounding in timber of different kinds the most useful for building purposes. 'There is no city in the West which ean boast of a position so advantageous commercially, or which will compare with it in after years in the wealth and extent of its trade.