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: THE 
AMERICAN 4 Ske 
MINERALOGY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, &c. 
as 
Arr. I—Account of the Native oe on the southern 
shore of Lake Superior, with historical citations and mis- 
cellaneous remarks, in a report to the Department "4 éd ars” 
by Henry R. Scuooicrart. 
(The following letter accompanied Mr. Schoolcraft’s Report. -] 
Ausany, Feb. 16th, 1991. 
TO PROFESSOR SILLIMAN, 
Sir, | , 
Accnezam to your request, and the permission of the Sec- 
at War, I enclose yon a copy of my report on the 
Cancer Mines of Lake Superior. 1n preparing it, I have 
consulted the former travellers of the region, and by com- 
ining their remarks with my own, endeavoured to present, 
in an embodied form, all the information extant upon the 
subject. It has been a cause of regret to me however, that 
more time was not devoted to the mineralogy and geo! 
of that section of country, but it appeared in 
with the more important objects of the oxpedity ‘ad nat 
could only make use of the time that was al allowed to me. 
= presenting the sibject to the Secretary at pie I thought 
observations would be more acceptable in a practical 
1 business form, than as assuming the character of a sci- 
entific memoir, and in choosing an intermediate course, I 
have probably said more on the geology of the country than 
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