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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 — John Shaqi

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

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

CHAPTER IX.

   Reunion of the expedition on the Savanna Portage--Elevation of this
     summit--Descent to Sandy Lake--Council with the Chippewa
     tribe--Who are they?--Traits of their history, language,
     and customs--Enter the Mississippi, with the main exploring
     party, and proceed in search of its source--Physical
     characteristics of the stream at this place--Character of
     the Canadian voyageur                                           118

CHAPTER X.

  Proceed up the Mississippi River--Its velocity and character--Swan
    River--Trout River, and Mushcoda or Prairie River--Rapids
    ascended--Reach, and make a portage around Pakagama Falls--Enter
    a vast lacustrine region--Its character and productions, vegetable
    and animal--Tortuous channel--Vermilion and Deer Rivers--Leech
    Lake branch--Lake Winnipek--Ascent of the river to Upper Red
    Cedar, or Cass Lake--Physical character of the Mississippi
    River                                                            126

CHAPTER XI.

  Physical traits of the Mississippi--The elevation of its
    sources--Its velocity and mean descent--Etymology of the name
    Mississippi--Descent of the river to Sandy Lake, and thence
    to the Falls of St. Anthony--Recross the great Bitobi
    Savanna--Pakagama formation--Description of the voyage
    from Sandy Lake to Pine River--Brief notices of the natural
    history                                                          137

CHAPTER XII.

  Description of the descent from Pine River--Pine tracts--Confluence
    of the Crow-wing River--Enter a sylvan region--prairies and
    groves, occupied by deer, elk, and buffalo--Sport of buffalo
    hunting--Reach elevations of sienitic and metamorphic
    rocks--Discover a pictographic inscription of the Sioux, by
    which they denote a desire for peace--Pass the Osaukes, St.
    Francis's, Corneille, and Rum Rivers--St. Anthony's
    Falls--Etymology of the name--Geographical considerations        145

CHAPTER XIII.

  Position of the military post established at the mouth of
    the St. Peter's--Beauty, salubrity, and fertility of the
    country--Pictographic letter--Indian treaty--The appearance
    of the offer of frankincense in the burning of
    tobacco--Opwagonite--native pigments--Salt; native copper--The
    pouched or prairie rat--Minnesota squirrel--Etymology of
    the Indian name of St. Peter's River--Antiquities--Sketch
    of the Dacota--Descent of the Mississippi to Little Crow's
    village--Feast of green corn                                     153

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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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