: Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River in 1820 Resumed and Completed by the Discovery of its Origin in Itasca Lake in 1832 by Schoolcraft Henry Rowe - Northwest Old Description and travel; Great Lakes (North

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EXPEDITION OF 1820.

INTRODUCTION 17

PRELIMINARY DOCUMENTS 25

NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION 37

Departure--Considerations on visiting the northern summits early in the season--Cross the Highlands of the Hudson--Incidents of the journey from Albany to Buffalo--Visit Niagara Falls--Their grandeur the effect of magnitude--Embark on board the steamer Walk-in-the-Water--Passage up Lake Erie--Reach Detroit 39

Preparations for the expedition--Constitution of the party--Mode of travel in canoes--Embarkation, and incidents of the journey across the Lake, and up the River St. Clair--Head winds encountered on Lake Huron--Point aux Barques--Cross Saganaw Bay--Delays in ascending the Huron coast--Its geology and natural history--Reach Michilimackinac 47

Description of Michilimackinac--Prominent scenery--Geology--Arched Rock--Sugarloaf Rock--History--Statistics--Mineralogy--Skull Cave--Manners--Its fish, agriculture, moral wants--Ingenious manufactures of the Indians--Fur trade--Etymology of the word--Antique bones disclosed in the interior of the island 59

Proceed down the north shore of Lake Huron to the entrance of the Straits of St. Mary's--Character of the shores, and incidents--Ascend the river to Sault Ste. Marie--Hostilities encountered there--Intrepidity of General Cass 72

Embark at the head of the portage at St. Mary's--Entrance into Lake Superior--Journey and incidents along its coasts--Great Sand Dunes--Pictured Rocks--Grand Island--Keweena peninsula and portage--Incidents thence to Ontonagon River 83

Chippewa village at the mouth of the Ontonagon--Organize an expedition to explore its mineralogy--Incidents of the trip--Rough nature of the country--Reach the Copper Rock--Misadventure--Kill a bear--Discoveries of copper--General remarks on the mineral affluence of the basin of Lake Superior 94

Proceed along the southern coast of Lake Superior from the Ontonagon, to Fond du Lac--Porcupine range of mountains--Streams that run from it, at parallel distances, into the lake--La Pointe--Group of the Federation Islands--River St. Louis--Physical geography of Lake Superior 102

Proceed up the St. Louis River, and around its falls and rapids to Sandy Lake in the valley of the Upper Mississippi--Grand Portage--Portage aux Coteaux--A main exploring party--Cross the great morass of Akeek Scepi to Sandy Lake--Indian mode of pictographic writing--Site of an Indian jonglery--Post of Sandy Lake 110

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