Chapter 23

AA bear trapped,98A box of minerals stolen,40A granitical formation on Lake Superior,88A long fast,126A new philological principle in languages,455A phenomenon,103A precinct of Indian orgies,115A sub-expedition to Sandy Lake,112A war-party surprised,552Account of sub-explorations of Green Bay,210Acipenser oxyrinchus,95Acipenser spatularia,163Advance of Lake Superior to the Rocky Mountains,109African and Indian marriages,108Agaric mineral,60Agate,87Agglutinative properties of the Indian pronoun,502Aggregate fall of the Mississippi below Sandy Lake,150;commencement of the calcareous rocks,150Algoma,107Algonquin language justly applauded,122Algonac,50Allenoga River,250Allen's Lake,263Aluminous minerals,354American Indian policy,546American antiquities,166Amygdaloid,90An Indian breakfast,253An Indian grave with hieroglyphics,88An Indian nonplused in the woods,97An Indian salute,120Analysis of Lake Superior copper at Utrecht,364Anodonta corpulenta,516Announcement of return of expedition, of 1820,279Antique markings on the pinus resinosa,552Antique notices of the lake mineralogy,295Antiquities,157;first notice of in 1766,165Apparent tide in the Baltic,191Appearance of dune sand at Point aux Barques,54Appendix No. 2,449Apricots in bloom on the 22d of April,41Arched rock,61Argillaceous stratum of Detroit,307Argillite,111Artesian borings for water,51Art of the wounded duck,249Arts and manufactures of the Chippewas and Ottowas,70Ascent of the Assowa River,235Asphaltum and naphtha,196Assassination of Owen Keveny,69Assowa Lake,239Atmospheric heat 28th June,96Aux Sables Indians,55BBark letter in pictographic characters,433Barometrical height of Cass Lake,139Barytic minerals,357Basin of Lake Michigan,335Basin of Lake Superior,318Bat in wood,396Beltrami,227Birch Lake,263Birds inhabiting the region of Pakagama Falls,130Birds of Lake Superior,104Birds of the Wisconsin Valley,181Bituminous minerals,358Bivalve shells,415Black River,103Boatswain to Com. Perry in 1813,194Botany,408Boulders on the shores of Lake St. Clair,49Boundary between Michigan and Wisconsin,103Breadth of the Mississippi at Sandy Lake,124Brigham's residence at Blue Mound,568Brulé summit,273Buckshot gravel,62Buffalo hunt,146CCabotian Mountains,110Calcareous minerals,350Canadian canoe-song,189Canoe-race,48Capt. Douglass,210Capt. Jouett,269Capture and massacre of the garrison of old Mackinac,63Carnage River,248Carnelian,87Carver's Cave,159Carver's travels,21Cass, his official report,280Cass Lake,130Cass Lake basin,328Cass on Indian hieroglyphics,430Cassville, Wisconsin,169Chagoimegon,105Chalcedony and calcareous spar,54Charles Stokes, Esq., his geological memoir,315Charlevoix's visit to America,20Character and value of Dubuque's lead mines,172Character of the bison,147Character of the Canadian voyageur,124Cheboigan, its etymology,213Chenos, a masked coast,73Chicago, etymology of name, population, and greatness,198Chief Guelle Plat,255Chippewa character of the Kekeewin,154Chippewa dance,87Chippewa term of salutation,84Chippewa village,94Cinnamon-colored radiated quartz,163Claimants to mine lands,365Clinton River,49Club fungus partially fossilized,204Coal in Western New York,391Coast of boulders,215Col. Croghan's attack at Fort Holmes in 1814,64Col. Pierce,58Coluber æstivus,50Combustibles,536Commercial value of copper,372Conchology,178Connection with Blackhawk's plans disclaimed,272Cooper's description of shells,515Copper-bearing trap-dykes,89Copper boulder, its size,97Copper-head snake,238Copper ores of Mineral Point,567Cormorant,130Corn ripens at St. Peter's Valley,153Cornu-ammonis; a fossiliferous coast,56Corregonus albus,260Cost of lake transportation,376Council at Cass Lake,251Council at Sandy Lake,226Council at St. Peter's agency,269Council at the ultimate point of the first expedition,133Council with Indians;their hostility,78;they raise the British flag,79Crow-wing River,145Crystals of iron pyrites,196Cupreous formation,324Cup-shaped concavities,61DDacota, or Nadownsie Indians,158Danger escaped,566Date and circumstance of Pike's visit to Sandy Lake,117Date of Prairie du Chien,167Date of the battle of Badaxe,269Date of Wisconsin as a territorial name,176De Witt Clinton offers the use of his library,23Dead scaffolded,122Defect of postal facilities, at Mackinac,65Depth of the Detroit clay beds,51Derogative inflections of the Indian noun,476Descent of Itasca River,246Description of the Indian canoe,47Desiderata of discovery,227Detroit completely burnt down in 1805,44Detroit first founded in 1701,45Difficulty of studying the Indian tongues,441Difficulty of the descent of the Brulé,273Diluvial elevations,385Diminutive forms of the Odjibwa noun,474Discover native copper,90Discovery of Itasca Lake,573Distance from Lake Superior to Lake Pepin,544Distance from St. Peter's to the gulf,153;elevation of the country,153Distances travelled in the expedition of 1831,544Dr. McDonnell's letter,439Dr. Mitchell's summary of discoveries,416Drift-stratum,115,322Dubuque City,170Du Ponceau's prize essay,453EEarliest date of Winnebago history,194Earthy compounds,534Elementary structure of the Algonquin language,442Elk Island,216Elk River, its latitude,147Elevation of Lake Superior,107Elevation of the cliff of La Grange,162Elevation of the country at the Savanna Portage,120Encampment at St. Mary's,76Ephemeral insects,167Epoch of the deposit of St. Mary's sandstone,539Epochs of geological action proved by fossils,400Era of Pontiac's hostile movements,62Era of the discovery of the St. Lawrence,121Erismatolite,103Erratic block stratum,53Erratic block and drift stratum,61Essay on the Odjibwa substantive,453Establishment of a military post at St. Peter's,152Etymology,116Etymology of Manitowakie,195Etymology of Minnesota,156Etymology of Namikong,85Etymology of Pawating,81Etymology of Rum River,150Etymology of the word Konamik,186Etymology of the word Michilimackinac,70Etymology of the word Mississippi,140Etymology of the word Wisconsin,179Etymology of Waganukizzie,207Evidences of ancient Indian cultivation,59Evidences of diluvial action,318Explorations recommended,285Extensive and fertile bow-shaped area,135FFallacious appearance of a tide in Green Bay,191Fallacious information of the Indians, respecting the lead mines,180Falls and precipices,110Falls of St. Croix,270Falls of the Montreal River,103Federation group of islands of Lake Superior,105,321Feud between the Sioux and Chippewas,545Final embarkation at Grosse Point,49Final separation of the party at Fort Dearborn,197First lake vessel built by La Salle,212First steamboat visits Michilimackinac in 1819,212Flat Rock Point, organic remains,55Flock of pigeons drowned in storms,195Flora of Lake Michigan,206Fluor spar,353Fond du Lac,184Fondness of the Indians for melons,170Forest-trees,143Forest-trees buried by oceanic drift,51Fort Holmes, when dismantled,64Fort Howard,190Fort Niagara built,62Fossil fauna of the West,199Fossil wood,386Foundation of old Mackinac,62Fox chief Aquoqua,171Fox River Valley,184Fox Village,169Freshwater conchology,188Freshwater shells of the Fox and Wisconsin,416Friendship of Wawetum,67Friendly act of the daughter of Wabojeeg,80Frogs inclosed in stone,386Fringillia vespertina, or Schoolcraft's grosbec,515Further discussion of the Odjibwa substantive,470GGalena,174Generalizations on the Mississippi River,139Geographical data of the portage from Lake Superior to the St. Croix and Chippewa Rivers,540Geological deductions,300Geological memoranda,119Geological monuments,332Geology of Mackinac,66Geological outlines of the Lake Superior coast,109Geological phenomena,245Geology,261Glacial action,216Globe of sandstone from a geological pocket-hole,316Grammatical structure of sentences in the Odjibwa,495Granite Point,88Granular gypsum in sandstone,86Graphic granite,84Gratiot's Grove,564Grauwackke,111Grauwackke of Iron River,321Grave of Dubuque,174Gray wolf,149,166Great copper boulder on Lake Superior,294Great sand dunes,85Green Bay City,191Group of the Manatouline Islands,74Grosbec—new species,515Gypsum,65,313HHabits of the anas canadensis,234Helix,515Hennepin,151Henry Inman,23Herds of buffalo east of the Mississippi,432High value of the Lake Superior copper mines urged on Congress,368Highest platform mound on the Mississippi,157Highlands of Sauble,310Historical data respecting Dubuque's mines,174Historical data respecting the smallpox,578Historical facts,150History of Green Bay,190History of the Chippewas,121History of the Fox Indians,175Hochungara, or Winnebagoes,181Holcus fragrans,157Houghton's analysis of the lake copper,527Houghton's plants,519How possessives are formed in the Chippewa,461Human skull in the solid part of a living tree,396Huron coast line,309Huttonian theory,405Hystrix,73IIce formed on the 19th of July,127Illigan Lake,264Image stone,231Importance of vaccination to Indians,581Impression of a trilobite in quartz,66Indian altar,55Indian birch-bark letter,433Indian boundary,149Indian chief Red Thunder,158Indian chief Red Wing,163Indian corn-dance,160Indian council,99Indian council at the mouth of the Crow-wing,267Indian dwarf,178Indian language,453Indian myth of Itasca, stanzas on,243Indian oratory,256Indian queen,254Indian summer,428Indian superstition respecting mines,374Indian symbol for a man,113Indian term for geologist,90Indian trait,151Indian translation of an expression,144Indian tribes visited in 1831,540Indian women engage in mining,173Indian women gathering rice,130Indians turn mineralogists,90Inquiries respecting the history of the Indians,438Inter-European amalgamation,77Intrepid act of Gen. Cass,80Iron sand,106Irving's Lake,230Island of ancient Indian sepulchre,194Itasca Lake,246JJames Riley,78Jargon of the northwest,234John Johnston, Esq.,80Journey from Albany to Geneva,41Journey in a sleigh across the Highlands,40KKabamappa accuses the Sioux of treachery,548Kaginogumaug, or Longwater Lake,261Kakabika Falls,247Kakala, its probable meaning,187Kalamazoo,203Kubba-Kunna,234LLa Hontan's apocryphal discovery on Long River,19Lac Plè,263Lac Traverse,229Lac Vieux Desert,263Lacustrine clay-flats of Lake St. Clair,49Lake action,318Lake Audrusia,228Lake Chetac,543Lake Douglass,265Lake drift,323Lake Pepin,163,332Lake St. Clair,216Landscape of Michilimackinac,71Last year the bison is seen east of the Mississippi,148Latitude of Mackinac,64Lead mines at Dubuque,168,333Leading events in the life of Gen. Macomb,72Leaf River of the Crow-wing,266Learn the state of the Sauc war,269Leech Lake,259Leech Lake River,129; etymology,129Left Hand River,108Legal claim to the mine tract,174Length of the Mississippi,245Letter to Nathaniel H. Carter, Esq.,409Level of Lake Erie above tide-water,43Limits of the cervus sylvestris,515Line of discovery above Cass Lake,244List of latitudes and longitudes,289List of quadrupeds and birds observed,413Little Crow chief,157Little Vermilion Lake,262Localities of minerals and rock strata,211Locality of freshwater shells,167Long Prairie River,266Longitudinal phenomena,109Lt. Col. Fowle, notice of,168Lupus Americanus,56Lyceum of Natural History, New York, extract from its annals,532M. Woolsey,588Mackinac limestone,312Magnesian minerals,356Magnitude of Lake Michigan,202Marquette's discovery of the Mississippi,17Mass of native copper, on the shores of Winnebago Lake,185Massachusetts Island,105Mean temperature at the sources of the Upper Mississippi River,123;party for the ultimate discovery of this river,123Mean temperature of St. Peter's Valley,154Mean velocity of current of Mississippi River,126Metallic masses,100Metallic minerals,340Meteorological journal kept at Chicago,424Meteorology,418Metoswa rapids,229Metunna Rapids,266Micaceous oxide of iron,111Michigan—its population at various periods,46Michilimackinac,57,311Michilimackinac first becomes a capital for the fur trade,68;J. J. Astor occupies it in 1816,68Miera, or Walk-in-the-water,212Milwaukie, its etymology, population, and resources,196Mine of Peosta,171Mineral character of Lake Superior,100Mineralogy and geology,292Mineralogy of the Northwest,534Miners' mode of classifying ore,564Mississippi first crossed by primary rocks,147Mississippi from the influx of the Missouri,138Mistake respecting American antiquities,157Mode of converting a noun to a verb in the Odjibwa,481Mollusks,127Montruille an object of pity,131Mozojeed, a chief of energy,550Mr. Monroe's message of 7th December, 1822,363Mr. Schoolcraft's Report on the Copper Mines of Lake Superior,292Mukkundwa Indians, ethnological sketch,258Murder of Gov. Semple,255Muskego River,104My first portage; what is "a piece,"90Mythologic notion,99NNaiwa rapids,236Native salt and native copper,155Native silver, and its ores,531Natural history,515Nebeesh Island and Rapids,75Neenaba, a partisan chief,554New localities of copper,375New seat for Hygeia and the Muses,60New species in conchology,417Nicollet's table of geographical positions,582Noble reply of an Algonquin chief,63Noble view,83Number in the Chippewa,457Number, value, &c. of the copper mines of Lake Superior,363OObjects of governmental policy,558Oblations to the dead,123Observe the buffalo,146Odjibwa animate and inanimate adjectives,490Odjibwa compound words,483Odjibwa numerals,501Odjibwamong,82Offering food to the dead,123Official report of Gen. Cass,280Okunzhewug, a chieftainess, murdered,550Old English Copper-mining Company,296Old Mackinac, its date,208Onzig River,84Ores and metals,536Organic impressions,313Organization of the expedition of 1832,223Origin of the Indian race,439Ornithology,130Ortho-cerite limestone,74Ottowa Lake,542PPakagama Falls,127Palæontological rocks,330Palaozoic sandstone,539Peace Rock,149Pelican,177Perch or Assawa Lake,362Period of the first military occupation of old Mackinac,64Petrified leaf, with a sketch,206Pewabik River,102Physical Character of the Crow-wing River,267Physical characters of the Mississippi,133Pictographic device,148Pictographic Indian inscription,113Pictographic mode of communicating ideas,430Pictured rocks,86Pike's Bay,251Pipe-stone, or opwagunite,155Planorbis,515Planorbis companulatus,246Plants collected by Dr. Houghton,519Plastic clay of St. Clair flats,308Plateau of lakes and marshes,128Polydon,416Polyganum,124Population and statistics of Mackinac in 1820,64Population of Detroit in 1820,45Population of Leech Lake,260Population of Ottowas,203Porcupine Mountains,91,323Porphyry and conglomerate boulders,317Portage to the sources of Crow-wing River,260Positive and negative forms of speech, in the Odjibwa,497Potatoes vegetate in pure pebbles,62Pouched rat,156Practicability of working the Superior mines of copper and iron,370;advantages of transportation,371Preliminary incidents at Washington,39Preliminary Report of Exploring Expedition of 1832,573Primary forks of the Mississippi,232;country disposed in plateaux,233Principles of the Odjibwa noun-adjective,489Produce of the copper mines of the world,379Pseudomorphous forms,314Pseudostoma pinetorum,156Pusabika River,102QQuartz geodes,334Quartzite rock,127Queen Anne's Lake,280Question of prepositions,471RRacine,197Rapid glances at the geology of Western New York,381Rapids of the Mississippi above Sandy Lake,125Rattlesnake of the Wisconsin Hills,181Reach Detroit, after a passage of 62 hours,44Reach Itasca Lake, its outline,241Reach Lake Superior,274Rebus nutkanus,129Reciprocal death in a combat,201Red Banks,194Red jasper in quantity,58Red oxide of iron,155Red sandstone,91Red sandstone of Lake Superior,316Register of temperature in the United States,426Reorganization of the first expedition at Chicago,200Report of Dr. Houghton on the copper of Lake Superior,526Report of Mr. Schoolcraft to the Senate on the mineral lands of Lake Superior,362Residents of Chicago in 1820,197Return of expedition of 1820 to Detroit,217;summary notice of,217Return to Sandy Lake,142Returns of the Cornwall and Devon copper mines,378Rifle shooting,83Rise of waters in the lakes,214River St. Croix,162Robert de la Salle,17Rosa parviflora,144Ruins of Fort St. Joseph, built in 1795,75Rule of euphony in the Algonquin language,444;active and passive voices,446;philosophical mode of denoting number,445

AA bear trapped,98A box of minerals stolen,40A granitical formation on Lake Superior,88A long fast,126A new philological principle in languages,455A phenomenon,103A precinct of Indian orgies,115A sub-expedition to Sandy Lake,112A war-party surprised,552Account of sub-explorations of Green Bay,210Acipenser oxyrinchus,95Acipenser spatularia,163Advance of Lake Superior to the Rocky Mountains,109African and Indian marriages,108Agaric mineral,60Agate,87Agglutinative properties of the Indian pronoun,502Aggregate fall of the Mississippi below Sandy Lake,150;commencement of the calcareous rocks,150Algoma,107Algonquin language justly applauded,122Algonac,50Allenoga River,250Allen's Lake,263Aluminous minerals,354American Indian policy,546American antiquities,166Amygdaloid,90An Indian breakfast,253An Indian grave with hieroglyphics,88An Indian nonplused in the woods,97An Indian salute,120Analysis of Lake Superior copper at Utrecht,364Anodonta corpulenta,516Announcement of return of expedition, of 1820,279Antique markings on the pinus resinosa,552Antique notices of the lake mineralogy,295Antiquities,157;first notice of in 1766,165Apparent tide in the Baltic,191Appearance of dune sand at Point aux Barques,54Appendix No. 2,449Apricots in bloom on the 22d of April,41Arched rock,61Argillaceous stratum of Detroit,307Argillite,111Artesian borings for water,51Art of the wounded duck,249Arts and manufactures of the Chippewas and Ottowas,70Ascent of the Assowa River,235Asphaltum and naphtha,196Assassination of Owen Keveny,69Assowa Lake,239Atmospheric heat 28th June,96Aux Sables Indians,55BBark letter in pictographic characters,433Barometrical height of Cass Lake,139Barytic minerals,357Basin of Lake Michigan,335Basin of Lake Superior,318Bat in wood,396Beltrami,227Birch Lake,263Birds inhabiting the region of Pakagama Falls,130Birds of Lake Superior,104Birds of the Wisconsin Valley,181Bituminous minerals,358Bivalve shells,415Black River,103Boatswain to Com. Perry in 1813,194Botany,408Boulders on the shores of Lake St. Clair,49Boundary between Michigan and Wisconsin,103Breadth of the Mississippi at Sandy Lake,124Brigham's residence at Blue Mound,568Brulé summit,273Buckshot gravel,62Buffalo hunt,146CCabotian Mountains,110Calcareous minerals,350Canadian canoe-song,189Canoe-race,48Capt. Douglass,210Capt. Jouett,269Capture and massacre of the garrison of old Mackinac,63Carnage River,248Carnelian,87Carver's Cave,159Carver's travels,21Cass, his official report,280Cass Lake,130Cass Lake basin,328Cass on Indian hieroglyphics,430Cassville, Wisconsin,169Chagoimegon,105Chalcedony and calcareous spar,54Charles Stokes, Esq., his geological memoir,315Charlevoix's visit to America,20Character and value of Dubuque's lead mines,172Character of the bison,147Character of the Canadian voyageur,124Cheboigan, its etymology,213Chenos, a masked coast,73Chicago, etymology of name, population, and greatness,198Chief Guelle Plat,255Chippewa character of the Kekeewin,154Chippewa dance,87Chippewa term of salutation,84Chippewa village,94Cinnamon-colored radiated quartz,163Claimants to mine lands,365Clinton River,49Club fungus partially fossilized,204Coal in Western New York,391Coast of boulders,215Col. Croghan's attack at Fort Holmes in 1814,64Col. Pierce,58Coluber æstivus,50Combustibles,536Commercial value of copper,372Conchology,178Connection with Blackhawk's plans disclaimed,272Cooper's description of shells,515Copper-bearing trap-dykes,89Copper boulder, its size,97Copper-head snake,238Copper ores of Mineral Point,567Cormorant,130Corn ripens at St. Peter's Valley,153Cornu-ammonis; a fossiliferous coast,56Corregonus albus,260Cost of lake transportation,376Council at Cass Lake,251Council at Sandy Lake,226Council at St. Peter's agency,269Council at the ultimate point of the first expedition,133Council with Indians;their hostility,78;they raise the British flag,79Crow-wing River,145Crystals of iron pyrites,196Cupreous formation,324Cup-shaped concavities,61DDacota, or Nadownsie Indians,158Danger escaped,566Date and circumstance of Pike's visit to Sandy Lake,117Date of Prairie du Chien,167Date of the battle of Badaxe,269Date of Wisconsin as a territorial name,176De Witt Clinton offers the use of his library,23Dead scaffolded,122Defect of postal facilities, at Mackinac,65Depth of the Detroit clay beds,51Derogative inflections of the Indian noun,476Descent of Itasca River,246Description of the Indian canoe,47Desiderata of discovery,227Detroit completely burnt down in 1805,44Detroit first founded in 1701,45Difficulty of studying the Indian tongues,441Difficulty of the descent of the Brulé,273Diluvial elevations,385Diminutive forms of the Odjibwa noun,474Discover native copper,90Discovery of Itasca Lake,573Distance from Lake Superior to Lake Pepin,544Distance from St. Peter's to the gulf,153;elevation of the country,153Distances travelled in the expedition of 1831,544Dr. McDonnell's letter,439Dr. Mitchell's summary of discoveries,416Drift-stratum,115,322Dubuque City,170Du Ponceau's prize essay,453EEarliest date of Winnebago history,194Earthy compounds,534Elementary structure of the Algonquin language,442Elk Island,216Elk River, its latitude,147Elevation of Lake Superior,107Elevation of the cliff of La Grange,162Elevation of the country at the Savanna Portage,120Encampment at St. Mary's,76Ephemeral insects,167Epoch of the deposit of St. Mary's sandstone,539Epochs of geological action proved by fossils,400Era of Pontiac's hostile movements,62Era of the discovery of the St. Lawrence,121Erismatolite,103Erratic block stratum,53Erratic block and drift stratum,61Essay on the Odjibwa substantive,453Establishment of a military post at St. Peter's,152Etymology,116Etymology of Manitowakie,195Etymology of Minnesota,156Etymology of Namikong,85Etymology of Pawating,81Etymology of Rum River,150Etymology of the word Konamik,186Etymology of the word Michilimackinac,70Etymology of the word Mississippi,140Etymology of the word Wisconsin,179Etymology of Waganukizzie,207Evidences of ancient Indian cultivation,59Evidences of diluvial action,318Explorations recommended,285Extensive and fertile bow-shaped area,135FFallacious appearance of a tide in Green Bay,191Fallacious information of the Indians, respecting the lead mines,180Falls and precipices,110Falls of St. Croix,270Falls of the Montreal River,103Federation group of islands of Lake Superior,105,321Feud between the Sioux and Chippewas,545Final embarkation at Grosse Point,49Final separation of the party at Fort Dearborn,197First lake vessel built by La Salle,212First steamboat visits Michilimackinac in 1819,212Flat Rock Point, organic remains,55Flock of pigeons drowned in storms,195Flora of Lake Michigan,206Fluor spar,353Fond du Lac,184Fondness of the Indians for melons,170Forest-trees,143Forest-trees buried by oceanic drift,51Fort Holmes, when dismantled,64Fort Howard,190Fort Niagara built,62Fossil fauna of the West,199Fossil wood,386Foundation of old Mackinac,62Fox chief Aquoqua,171Fox River Valley,184Fox Village,169Freshwater conchology,188Freshwater shells of the Fox and Wisconsin,416Friendship of Wawetum,67Friendly act of the daughter of Wabojeeg,80Frogs inclosed in stone,386Fringillia vespertina, or Schoolcraft's grosbec,515Further discussion of the Odjibwa substantive,470GGalena,174Generalizations on the Mississippi River,139Geographical data of the portage from Lake Superior to the St. Croix and Chippewa Rivers,540Geological deductions,300Geological memoranda,119Geological monuments,332Geology of Mackinac,66Geological outlines of the Lake Superior coast,109Geological phenomena,245Geology,261Glacial action,216Globe of sandstone from a geological pocket-hole,316Grammatical structure of sentences in the Odjibwa,495Granite Point,88Granular gypsum in sandstone,86Graphic granite,84Gratiot's Grove,564Grauwackke,111Grauwackke of Iron River,321Grave of Dubuque,174Gray wolf,149,166Great copper boulder on Lake Superior,294Great sand dunes,85Green Bay City,191Group of the Manatouline Islands,74Grosbec—new species,515Gypsum,65,313HHabits of the anas canadensis,234Helix,515Hennepin,151Henry Inman,23Herds of buffalo east of the Mississippi,432High value of the Lake Superior copper mines urged on Congress,368Highest platform mound on the Mississippi,157Highlands of Sauble,310Historical data respecting Dubuque's mines,174Historical data respecting the smallpox,578Historical facts,150History of Green Bay,190History of the Chippewas,121History of the Fox Indians,175Hochungara, or Winnebagoes,181Holcus fragrans,157Houghton's analysis of the lake copper,527Houghton's plants,519How possessives are formed in the Chippewa,461Human skull in the solid part of a living tree,396Huron coast line,309Huttonian theory,405Hystrix,73IIce formed on the 19th of July,127Illigan Lake,264Image stone,231Importance of vaccination to Indians,581Impression of a trilobite in quartz,66Indian altar,55Indian birch-bark letter,433Indian boundary,149Indian chief Red Thunder,158Indian chief Red Wing,163Indian corn-dance,160Indian council,99Indian council at the mouth of the Crow-wing,267Indian dwarf,178Indian language,453Indian myth of Itasca, stanzas on,243Indian oratory,256Indian queen,254Indian summer,428Indian superstition respecting mines,374Indian symbol for a man,113Indian term for geologist,90Indian trait,151Indian translation of an expression,144Indian tribes visited in 1831,540Indian women engage in mining,173Indian women gathering rice,130Indians turn mineralogists,90Inquiries respecting the history of the Indians,438Inter-European amalgamation,77Intrepid act of Gen. Cass,80Iron sand,106Irving's Lake,230Island of ancient Indian sepulchre,194Itasca Lake,246JJames Riley,78Jargon of the northwest,234John Johnston, Esq.,80Journey from Albany to Geneva,41Journey in a sleigh across the Highlands,40KKabamappa accuses the Sioux of treachery,548Kaginogumaug, or Longwater Lake,261Kakabika Falls,247Kakala, its probable meaning,187Kalamazoo,203Kubba-Kunna,234LLa Hontan's apocryphal discovery on Long River,19Lac Plè,263Lac Traverse,229Lac Vieux Desert,263Lacustrine clay-flats of Lake St. Clair,49Lake action,318Lake Audrusia,228Lake Chetac,543Lake Douglass,265Lake drift,323Lake Pepin,163,332Lake St. Clair,216Landscape of Michilimackinac,71Last year the bison is seen east of the Mississippi,148Latitude of Mackinac,64Lead mines at Dubuque,168,333Leading events in the life of Gen. Macomb,72Leaf River of the Crow-wing,266Learn the state of the Sauc war,269Leech Lake,259Leech Lake River,129; etymology,129Left Hand River,108Legal claim to the mine tract,174Length of the Mississippi,245Letter to Nathaniel H. Carter, Esq.,409Level of Lake Erie above tide-water,43Limits of the cervus sylvestris,515Line of discovery above Cass Lake,244List of latitudes and longitudes,289List of quadrupeds and birds observed,413Little Crow chief,157Little Vermilion Lake,262Localities of minerals and rock strata,211Locality of freshwater shells,167Long Prairie River,266Longitudinal phenomena,109Lt. Col. Fowle, notice of,168Lupus Americanus,56Lyceum of Natural History, New York, extract from its annals,532M. Woolsey,588Mackinac limestone,312Magnesian minerals,356Magnitude of Lake Michigan,202Marquette's discovery of the Mississippi,17Mass of native copper, on the shores of Winnebago Lake,185Massachusetts Island,105Mean temperature at the sources of the Upper Mississippi River,123;party for the ultimate discovery of this river,123Mean temperature of St. Peter's Valley,154Mean velocity of current of Mississippi River,126Metallic masses,100Metallic minerals,340Meteorological journal kept at Chicago,424Meteorology,418Metoswa rapids,229Metunna Rapids,266Micaceous oxide of iron,111Michigan—its population at various periods,46Michilimackinac,57,311Michilimackinac first becomes a capital for the fur trade,68;J. J. Astor occupies it in 1816,68Miera, or Walk-in-the-water,212Milwaukie, its etymology, population, and resources,196Mine of Peosta,171Mineral character of Lake Superior,100Mineralogy and geology,292Mineralogy of the Northwest,534Miners' mode of classifying ore,564Mississippi first crossed by primary rocks,147Mississippi from the influx of the Missouri,138Mistake respecting American antiquities,157Mode of converting a noun to a verb in the Odjibwa,481Mollusks,127Montruille an object of pity,131Mozojeed, a chief of energy,550Mr. Monroe's message of 7th December, 1822,363Mr. Schoolcraft's Report on the Copper Mines of Lake Superior,292Mukkundwa Indians, ethnological sketch,258Murder of Gov. Semple,255Muskego River,104My first portage; what is "a piece,"90Mythologic notion,99NNaiwa rapids,236Native salt and native copper,155Native silver, and its ores,531Natural history,515Nebeesh Island and Rapids,75Neenaba, a partisan chief,554New localities of copper,375New seat for Hygeia and the Muses,60New species in conchology,417Nicollet's table of geographical positions,582Noble reply of an Algonquin chief,63Noble view,83Number in the Chippewa,457Number, value, &c. of the copper mines of Lake Superior,363OObjects of governmental policy,558Oblations to the dead,123Observe the buffalo,146Odjibwa animate and inanimate adjectives,490Odjibwa compound words,483Odjibwa numerals,501Odjibwamong,82Offering food to the dead,123Official report of Gen. Cass,280Okunzhewug, a chieftainess, murdered,550Old English Copper-mining Company,296Old Mackinac, its date,208Onzig River,84Ores and metals,536Organic impressions,313Organization of the expedition of 1832,223Origin of the Indian race,439Ornithology,130Ortho-cerite limestone,74Ottowa Lake,542PPakagama Falls,127Palæontological rocks,330Palaozoic sandstone,539Peace Rock,149Pelican,177Perch or Assawa Lake,362Period of the first military occupation of old Mackinac,64Petrified leaf, with a sketch,206Pewabik River,102Physical Character of the Crow-wing River,267Physical characters of the Mississippi,133Pictographic device,148Pictographic Indian inscription,113Pictographic mode of communicating ideas,430Pictured rocks,86Pike's Bay,251Pipe-stone, or opwagunite,155Planorbis,515Planorbis companulatus,246Plants collected by Dr. Houghton,519Plastic clay of St. Clair flats,308Plateau of lakes and marshes,128Polydon,416Polyganum,124Population and statistics of Mackinac in 1820,64Population of Detroit in 1820,45Population of Leech Lake,260Population of Ottowas,203Porcupine Mountains,91,323Porphyry and conglomerate boulders,317Portage to the sources of Crow-wing River,260Positive and negative forms of speech, in the Odjibwa,497Potatoes vegetate in pure pebbles,62Pouched rat,156Practicability of working the Superior mines of copper and iron,370;advantages of transportation,371Preliminary incidents at Washington,39Preliminary Report of Exploring Expedition of 1832,573Primary forks of the Mississippi,232;country disposed in plateaux,233Principles of the Odjibwa noun-adjective,489Produce of the copper mines of the world,379Pseudomorphous forms,314Pseudostoma pinetorum,156Pusabika River,102QQuartz geodes,334Quartzite rock,127Queen Anne's Lake,280Question of prepositions,471RRacine,197Rapid glances at the geology of Western New York,381Rapids of the Mississippi above Sandy Lake,125Rattlesnake of the Wisconsin Hills,181Reach Detroit, after a passage of 62 hours,44Reach Itasca Lake, its outline,241Reach Lake Superior,274Rebus nutkanus,129Reciprocal death in a combat,201Red Banks,194Red jasper in quantity,58Red oxide of iron,155Red sandstone,91Red sandstone of Lake Superior,316Register of temperature in the United States,426Reorganization of the first expedition at Chicago,200Report of Dr. Houghton on the copper of Lake Superior,526Report of Mr. Schoolcraft to the Senate on the mineral lands of Lake Superior,362Residents of Chicago in 1820,197Return of expedition of 1820 to Detroit,217;summary notice of,217Return to Sandy Lake,142Returns of the Cornwall and Devon copper mines,378Rifle shooting,83Rise of waters in the lakes,214River St. Croix,162Robert de la Salle,17Rosa parviflora,144Ruins of Fort St. Joseph, built in 1795,75Rule of euphony in the Algonquin language,444;active and passive voices,446;philosophical mode of denoting number,445

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