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THE GEOLOGY OF MINNESOTA. 



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FIGURE 2. 



NOUVELLE 

 Par Guillnurne BE L'ISLE 



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Superior and Grand Portage, returning to Boston by way of the north 

 shore of lake Superior, Michillimackinac and Detroit. 



Carver's book* states that he intended at first to pass by way of the 

 lake of the Woods and lake Winnipeg, to the " heads of the river of the West, 

 which, as I have said before, falls into the straits of Annian, the termina- 

 tion of my intended progress," but falling short of supplies for presents to 

 the Indians, and being unable to obtain them of the traders at Grand 

 Portage, he was compelled to abandon his great exploration. 



"Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1706, 1767 and 1768. By J. Carver, Esq., Captain 

 of a company of provincial troops during the late war with France, Dublin, 1779. 



