Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

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       Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

      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

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664561145

Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I.

       CHAPTER II.

       CHAPTER III.

       CHAPTER IV.

       CHAPTER V.

       CHAPTER VI.

       CHAPTER VII.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       CHAPTER IX.

       CHAPTER X.

       CHAPTER XI.

       CHAPTER XII.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       CHAPTER XIV.

       CHAPTER XV.

       CHAPTER XVI.

       CHAPTER XVII.

       CHAPTER XVIII.

       CHAPTER XIX.

       CHAPTER XX.

       DISCOVERY OF THE ACTUAL SOURCE OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN ITASCA LAKE, BY AN EXPEDITION, AUTHORIZED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, IN 1832.

       CHAPTER XXI.

       CHAPTER XXII.

       CHAPTER XXIII.

       CHAPTER XXIV.

       CHAPTER XXV.

       CHAPTER XXVI.

       CHAPTER XXVII.

       APPENDIX.

       1. DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS.

       2. TOPOGRAPHY AND ASTRONOMY.

       3. MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY.

       4. BOTANY.

       5. ZOOLOGY.

       6. METEOROLOGY.

       7. INDIAN HIEROGLYPHICS, OR PICTURE WRITING, LANGUAGES, AND HISTORY.

       APPENDIX.

       INDIAN LANGUAGES

       2. NATURAL HISTORY.

       3. INDIAN TRIBES.

       4. TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHY.

       5. SCENERY.

       INDEX

CHAPTER I.

       Table of Contents

      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.

      The determination to penetrate to the source of the Mississippi, during the summer months, made an early departure important. I had, while at Potosi, in Missouri, during the prior month of February, written to Hon. J. B. Thomas, U. S. S., Washington, to endeavor to secure an appointment to explore the mineralogy and natural features of the upper Mississippi River; and as soon as I had published my treatise on the mines and minerals of Missouri, I proceeded to Washington, and submitted to the proper officers of the Government, my account of the mineralogical wealth of the western domains, with a plan for the management of the public mines. Mr. Calhoun decidedly favored these views; but, foreseeing the necessity of congressional action on the subject, and the necessary delays of departmental references, said to me, that he had just received a memoir from Governor Cass, of Michigan, proposing an expedition to the source of the Mississippi, to leave Detroit early in the spring, and offered me the position of mineralogist and geologist on that service. This agreeing, as it did, with my prior views of exploring the public domains, I gladly accepted, and