CONTENTS. 



EXPEDITION OF 1820. 



Introdtjction 17 



Preliminary Documents 25 



Narrative of the Expedition 37 



CHAPTER I. 



Departure — Considerations on visiting the northern summits early in the season — 

 Cross the Highlands of the Hudson — Incidents of the journey from Albany to 

 Buffalo — Visit Niagara Falls — Their grandeur the effect of magnitude — Embark 

 on board the steamer Walk-in-the-Water — Passage up Lake Erie — Reach Detroit 



39 



CHAPTER II. 



Preparations for the expedition — Constitution of the party — Mode of travel in canoes 

 — Embarkation, and incidents of the journey across the Lake, and up the River 

 St. Clair — Head winds encountered on Lake Huron — Point aux Barques — Cross 

 Saganaw Bay — Delays in ascending the Huron coast — Its geology and natural 

 history — Reach Michilimackinac ........ 47 



CHAPTER III. 



Description of Michilimackinac — Prominent scenery — Geology — Arched Rock — 

 Sugarloaf Rock — History — Statistics — Mineralogy — Skull Cave — Manners — 

 Its fish, agriculture, moral wants — Ingenious manufactures of the Indians — Fur 

 trade — Etymology of the word — Antique bones disclosed in the interior of the 

 island 59 



CHAPTER IV. 



Proceed down the north shore of Lake Huron to the entrance of the Straits of St. 

 Mary's — Character of the shores, and incidents — Ascend the river to Sault Ste. 

 Marie — Hostilities encountered there — Intrepidity of General Cass . . 72 



