310 Notiee of the Peninsula of Michigan. 
stitute their beds. Ornamented dresses, and implements ot 
war and hunting, were displayed. The females are com- 
fortably clad, a ‘some much decorated Mop silver. Indians 
seen navigating and fishing in the adjacent waters. 
This remnant of the aboriginal | darice, will soon be 
driven from their native lakes, their orchard, and favourite 
isle, by swarms of emigrant pioneers 
Some of the lakes have no apperent outlet; _ their wa- 
ters derived from springs are pure and contain 
ee ante dec sii is much less known shear the eastern, 
to have fewer lakes. Not many were esi in 
pose cae western section of the Chicago road. 
Thoug'! — is a deficiency of small rivulets and springs 
in parts of the territory, rendering some sections, otherwise 
good, undesirable for settlement, yet valuable streams often 
occur, and there are many rivers that derive a peculiar ad- 
vantage from having their sources in numerous large a 
deep reservoirs, making the quantity discharged much less 
variable than from most streams of the west. The waters 
slowly drain from the lakes, swamps, and flat country of 
Michigan, filling the river channels in rainy seasons, but rare- 
h poner ees os the banks, which are almost invariably higher 
than the cl eason of 
———- district, - dom fail in any season 0 
sufficiency for navigation, mills, and manufac- 
€ ri ears BaClaird dnd ‘Detroit seldom vary a foot 
in inaltvode iete the Ohio the variation is in many places forty 
feet, and this stream is annually for months fordable, and too 
low for navigation—some rivers west of the Mississippi that 
in winter wind several hundred miles with full banks, are 
often dry in summer. The St. Joseph and Grand river, are 
the — streams of the western declivity of the peninsu- 
Ja that discharge their waters into lake Michigan. The St. 
Pc iy ‘of 
Joseph has its origin in the rolling country of thei 
the peninsula and in Indiana. It is navigable 150 miles for 
large boats. The portage between the waters of the St. Jo- 
seph and the Maumee, is but a mile and a half in width, at 
thich place the former river, though narrow, is not fordable, 
as experienced by Mr. Risden: he remarked. that the 
western part of the course of the St. Joseph is. through 
beautiful, fertile, and healthy valley; the ground on 
side rising with a gentle acclivity toa a elevation, 
enting hickory and oak openings, coppice, F , and 
natural meadows. In fertility, it has been crept to the 
