TOUR OF THE AMERICAN LAKES, AND AMONG THE INDIANS OF THE NORTH-WEST TERRITORY, IN 1830: DISCLOSING THE CHARACTER AND PROSPECTS OF THE INDIAN RACE. BY C. COLTON. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: FREDERICK WESTLEY AND A. H. DAVIS, MDCCCXXXIII. LONDON R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD-STREET-HILL. CONTENTS OF VOL. I. Page ADVERTISEMENT ix INTRODUCTION xi CHAP. I. The Falls of Niagara 1 CHAP. II. Niagara Whirlpool 12 CHAP. III. Geographical description of the Great Lakes of North America 21 CHAP. IV. The Author’s motives for undertaking the _Tour_; character of wild Indians 28 CHAP. V. Romantic expectations; impressions of nursery tales respecting Indians; the savage proper; embarkation from Buffalo; beauties of Lake Erie; arrival at Detroit 33 CHAP. VI. History of Detroit:--early trading posts; Pontiac’s conspiracy; Detroit saved; Pontiac’s death; description and beauties of the Territory of Michigan 40 CHAP. VII. Remarkable instance of capital crime 48 CHAP. VIII. Embarkation from Detroit; Captain Symmes’s theory of the earth; sail over Lake St. Clair; interest of the scene; delta of the River St. Clair; relics of French population; a picture of French and Indians 54 CHAP. IX. River St. Clair; visit to Fort Gratiot; memoranda of Lake Huron:--wild and picturesque scenery of its northern regions; meeting with a canoe, manned by eight Indians with the paddle; their dexterity and the celerity of their movement; an Indian encampment; their lodges; the Indian paddle quicker than steam; the Indian’s love of money and whiskey; an Indian salute; and several interesting incidents of the passage among the islands of the north margin of Huron 63 CHAP. X. Arrival at the _Saut de St. Marie_; origin of this name; the Falls; an interesting young lady, whose mother was an Indian and her father a Scotchman; peculiar and moral power of Indian languages 80 CHAP. XI. Voyage from the Saut de St. Marie to Green Bay; the thirty-two thousand islands; the scenery they create; description of Michillimackinack; the sugar-loaf and arched rock; arrival at Green Bay in the North-West Territory 88 CHAP. XII.