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 1832Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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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
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
Great Lakes (North America); Mississippi River -- Sources; Northwest, Old -- Description and travel
Having thus accomplished the objects committed to my trust, and rejoined
the track described in my prior narrative, I rested here on the next day
(5th), being the Sabbath; and then proceeded through Lake Superior, to
my starting-point at Sault de Ste Marie.[199]
[199] On passing through Lake Superior, I learned from an Indian the
first breaking out of Asiatic cholera in the country, in 1832, and
the wide alarm it had produced.
APPENDIX.
No. 1.
THE EXPEDITION TO THE SOURCES OF THE
MISSISSIPPI IN 1820.
I. OFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE EXPEDITION OF 1820.
1. DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS.
I. Announcement of the Return of the Expedition. By Hon. LEWIS
CASS.
II. General Report to the Department of War. By Hon. LEWIS CASS.
III. Further Explorations of Western Geography recommended. By Hon.
LEWIS CASS.
IV. Personal Testimonial on the close of the Expedition. By Hon.
LEWIS CASS.
2. TOPOGRAPHY AND ASTRONOMY.
V. Results of Observations for Latitudes and Longitudes during the
Expedition of 1820. By DAVID B. DOUGLASS, Capt. Engineers, U. S.
A.
3. MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY.
VI. Report on the Copper Mines of Lake Superior. By HENRY R.
SCHOOLCRAFT.
VII. Observations on the Mineralogy and Geology of the country
embracing the sources of the Mississippi River and the Great
Lake Basins. By HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT.
VIII. Report in reply to a Resolution of the U. S. Senate on the Value
and Extent of the Mineral Lands on Lake Superior. By HENRY R.
SCHOOLCRAFT.
IX. Rapid Glances at the Geology of Western New York, beyond the
Rome summit, in 1820. By HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT.
X. A Memoir on the Geological Position of a Fossil Tree in the
secondary rocks of the Illinois. Albany: E. & E. Hosford,
pp. 18, 1822. By HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT.
4. BOTANY.
XI. List of Plants collected by Capt. D. B. Douglass at the sources
of the Mississippi River. This paper has been published in the
4th vol. p. 56 of Silliman's Journal of Science. By Dr. JOHN
TORREY.
5. ZOOLOGY.
XII. A Letter embracing Notices of the Zoology of the Northwest,
addressed to Dr. Mitchell on the return of the Expedition. By
HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT.
(1.) FRESH-WATER CONCHOLOGY.
XIII. Species of Bivalves collected by Mr. Schoolcraft and Capt.
Douglass in the Northwest. Published in the 6th vol. Amer.
Journ. of Science, pp. 120, 259. By D. H. BARNES.
XIV. Fresh-water Shells collected by Mr. Schoolcraft in the valleys
of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. American Philosophical
Transactions, vol. 5. By Mr. ISAAC LEA.
(2.) FAUNA: ICHTHYOLOGY: REPTILIA.
XV. Summary Remarks respecting the Zoological Species noticed in the
Expedition. By Dr. SAMUEL L. MITCHELL.
XVI. Mus Busarius. Medical Repository, vol. 21, p. 248. By Dr. SAMUEL
L. MITCHELL.
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