"So called because it was the lowest point for swift rapids. The word is occasionally spelled phonetically, 'Bausse.'"

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[Source: Hunt, J.W. Wisconsin Gazetteer (Madison, 1853), p. 238 in Wis. His. Soc. Proceedings, 1910, footnote, p. 173.]