NARRATIVE 



OF 



AN EXPEDITION 



TO THE 



SOURCE OF ST. PETER'S RIVER, 



LAKE WINNEPEEK, LAKE OF THE WOODS, 



Sfc. Sfc. 



PERFORMED IN THE YEAR 1823, 



BY ORDER OF 



THE HON. J. C. CALHOUN, SECRETARY OF WAR, 



tJNDER THE COMMAND OF 



STEPHEN H. LONG, Major U. S. T. E. 



— LiBiARY 



COMPILED FROM THE NOTES OF MAJOR LONG, MESSRS. SxH 



KEATING, AND COLHOUN, C»iAlNI4^Ai. 



GARDEN 



BT 



WILLIAM H. KEATING, A. M. &c. 



PROFESSOR OF MINERALOGY AND CHEMISTRY AS APPLIED TO THE ARTS, IN 



THE t7NIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ; GEOLOGIST AND 



HISTORIOGRAPHER TO THE EXPEDITION. 



IN TWO VOLUMES. 

 VOL. L 



PHILADELPHIA : 

 H. C. CAREY & I. LEA— CHESNUT STREET. 



1824. 



