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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 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

Name: 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
Author: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

Great Lakes (North America); Mississippi River -- Sources; Northwest, Old -- Description and travel

INTRODUCTION                                                          17

PRELIMINARY DOCUMENTS                                                 25

NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION                                           37

CHAPTER I.

  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

CHAPTER II.

  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

CHAPTER III.

  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

CHAPTER IV.

  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

CHAPTER V.

  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

CHAPTER VI.

  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

CHAPTER VII.

  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

CHAPTER VIII.

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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

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