1 10 THE GEOLOGY OF MINNESOTA. 



[Present survey, 1872-82, 



the Bed river of the North to lake Superior. He ascended the Red Lake river to the Clearwater 

 river, which lie followed to the mouth of a tributary from the north, known as Wild Rice river. 

 From the last he made a portage of four miles and again reached Red Lake river. From Red 

 lake he proceeded southward by the usual route to Turtle lake, the same as the Julian Source 

 the Mississippi described by Mr. Beltrami in 1823, thence down the Mississippi to Sandy lake 

 and by way of the Savannah rivers to the mouth of the St. Louis at Fond du Lac. 



Mr. Neill has also called attention to the existence of other maps of the region south and 

 west of lake Superior older than that of Franquelin of 1688, represented on plate-page No. 2. 

 One of these is by the engineer Raudin, another is by Joliet and Franquelin, and a third is by 

 Joliet. These maps give the name Buade to the Mississippi river, and apply the term Frontenacie 

 to the whole country north and west of the mouth of the Wisconsin river. Only the third, that 

 of Joliet, of 1764, has been published. 



On the historical plate (No. 1), Du Luth's fort (Kamanistigouia) is placed at the mouth of 

 the St. Louis river on the authority of Perrot, who says (Collections of the Minnesota Historical 

 Society for 1867, p. 26), son poste estoit au fond du lac Superiew, though many other authorities 

 concur in placing it at Three Rivers, at the head of Thunder bay.] 



