HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



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and rising in the Kocky Mountains. Plate IV however, represents the 

 river of the west as flowing into the Pacific, rising in lake Brochet in the 

 neighborhood of the sources of the Missouri. 



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JONATHAN CARVEE. 



Jonathan Carver in 1766 was the next to contribute to the geography 

 and natural history of Minnesota. By this time the route for canoes along 

 the northwestern boundary had become well known, and was annually 

 traversed by hundreds of coureurs des bois and by thousands of Indians 

 conveying furs to the lake shore, where at Fort Charlotte, now Grand Port- 

 age, they were exchanged for supplies from Montreal, or were despatched 

 in the light birch canoes to the distant markets of Montreal and Quebec. 

 This route had been mapped by Ochagach in 1730 for Verendrye, and by 

 Jeffrey in 1762. 



Carver ascended the Mississippi from the mouth of the Wisconsin 

 to the falls of St. Anthony, of which he gives the fullest description 

 up to that time, and, passing above the falls, reached the St. Francis 

 river. Thence he descended, and made his way up the Minnesota river 

 as far as the mouth of the Waraju, or Cottonwood, where he spent seven 

 months the winter and spring of 1766-67. Subsequently descending the 

 Mississippi to Prairie du Chien, he passed through Wisconsin to lake 



