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St. Anthony's Falls, in latitude 44° 58' 40". We descended the 

 river below this point, by its windings among high and picturesque 

 cliffs, to the influx of the Wisconsin, estimated to be three hun- 

 dred miles. Thence we came through the Wisconsin and Fox 

 valleys to Green Bay, on an arm of Lake Michigan, and, having 

 circumnavigated the latter, returned through Lakes Huron and 

 St. Clair to Detroit. The line of travel is about four thousand 

 two hundred miles. Such a country — for its scenery, its magnifi- 

 cence, and resources, and the strong influence it is destined ulti- 

 mately to have on the commerce, civilization, and progress of the 

 country — the sun does not shine on ! Its topography, latitudes 

 and longitudes, heights and distances, have been accurately ob- 

 tained by Captain Douglass, of West Point, who will prepare an 

 elaborate map and description of the country. 



Personally, I have not been idle. If I have sat sometimes, in 

 mute wonder, gazing on such scenes as the Pictured Eocks of 

 Lake Superior, or the sylvan beauty and mixed abruptness of the 

 Falls of St. Anthony, it has been but the idleness of admiration. 

 I have kept my note-book, my sketch-book, and my pencil in my 

 hands, early and late; nor have once, during the whole journey, 

 transferred myself, at an early hour, from the camp-fire or pallet 

 to the canoe, merely to recompose myself again to sleep. If the 

 mineralogy or geology of the country often presented little to note, 

 the scenery, or the atmosphere, or that lone human boulder, the 

 American Indian, did. The evidences of the existence of copper 

 in the basin of Lake Superior are ample. There is every indica- 

 tion of its abundance that the geologist could wish. Nature 

 here has operated on a grand scale. By means of volcanic fires, 

 she has infused into the trap-rocks veins of melted metal, which 

 not inaptly represent the arteries of the human system ; for 

 wherever the broken-down shores of this lake are examined, they 

 disclose, not the sulphurets and carbonates of this ore, but frag- 

 m.ents and lumps of virgin veins. These, the winds and waves 

 have scattered far and wide. 



But what, you will ask, can be reported of its quadrupeds, 

 birds, reptilia, and general zoology? Have you measured the 

 height and length of the mastodon — "the great bull" — who the 

 Indians told Mr. Jefferson resisted the thunderbolts, and leaped 



