The New Student's Reference Work/Dalles of Wisconsin, The

Dalles of Wisconsin, The, near Kilbourne, Columbia County, are a picturesque gorge with high vertical walls through which the Wisconsin River rushes after rains with great violence; but in dry seasons not so fast as to prevent its navigation by small steamboats. Dalles is a French name for the rocky gorges in which rivers sometimes for a portion of their course are confined, and flow at great speed.