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INDEX. 



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Breadth of the Mississippi at Sandy Lake, 



124 

 Brigham's residence at Blue Mound, 568 

 Brule summit, 273 

 Buckshot jiravel, 62 

 Buffalo hunt, 146 



Cabotian Mountains, 110 



Calcareous minerals, 350 



Canadian canoe-song, 189 * 



Canoe-race, 48 



Capt. Douglass, 210 



Capt. Jouett, 209 



Capture and massacre of the garrison of 

 old Mackinac, 63 



Carnage River, 248 



Carnelian, 87 



Carver's Cave, 159 



Carver's travels, 21 



Cass, his official report, 280 



Cass Lake, 130 



Cass Lalce basin, 328 



Cass on Indian hieroglyphics, 430 



Cassville, Wisconsin, 169 



Chagoimegon, 105 



Chalcedony and calcareous spar, 54 



Charles Stokes, Esq., his geological me- 

 moir, 315 



Charlevoix's visit to America, 20 



Character and value of Dubuque's lead 

 mines, 172 



Character of the bison, 147 



Character of the Canadian voyageur, 124 



Cheboigan, its etymology, 213 



Chenos, a masked coast, 73 



Chicago, etymology of name, population, 

 and greatness, 198 



Chief Guelle Plat, 255 



Chippewa character of the Kekeewin, 154 



Chippewa dance, 87 



Chippewa term of salutation, 84 



Chippewa village, 94 



Cinnamon-colored radiated quartz, 163 



Claioiants to mine lands, 365 



Clinton River, 49 



Club fungus partially fossilized, 204 



Coal in Western New York, 391 



Coast of boulders, 215 



Col. Croghan's attack at Fort Holmes in 

 1814, 64 



Col. Pierce, 58 



Coluber iestivus, 50 



Combustibles, 536 



Commercial A'alue of copper, 372 



Conchology, 178 



Connection with Blackhawk's plans dis- 

 claimed, 272 



Cooper's description of shells, 515 



Copper-bearing trap-dykes, 89 



Copper boulder, its size, 97 



Copper-head snake, 238 



Copper ores of Mineral Point, 567 



Cormorant, 130 



Corn ripens at St. Peter's Valley, 153 



Cornu-ammonis; a fossiliferous coast, 56 



Corregonus albus, 260 



Cost of lake transportation, 37G 



Council at Cass Lake, 251 



Council at Sandy Lake, 226 



Council at St. Peter's agency, 269 



Council at the ultimate point of the first 



expedition, 133 

 Council with Indians; their hostility, 78; 



they raise the British flag, 79 

 Crow-wing River, 145 

 Crystals of iron pyrites, 196 

 Cupreous formation, 324 

 Cup-shaped concavities, 61 



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Dacota, or Nadow^asie Indians, 158 



Danger escaped, 566 



Date and circumstance of Pike's visit to 



Sandy Lake, 117 

 Date of Prairie du Chien, 167 

 Date of the battle of Badaxe, 269 

 Date of Yvisconsin as a territorial name, 



176 

 De AVitt Clinton offers the use of his 



library, 23 

 Dead scaffolded, 122 

 Defect of postal facilities, at Mackinac, 



05 

 Depth of the Detroit clay beds, 51 

 Deriig.-itive inflections of the Indian noun, 



476 

 Descent of Itasca River, 246 

 Description of the Indian canoe, 47 

 Desiderata of discovery, 227 

 Detroit completely burnt down in 1805, 



44 

 Detroit first founded in 1701, 45 

 Difficulty of studying the Indian tongues, 



441 

 Difficulty of the descent of the Brule, 



273 

 Diluvial elevations, 385 

 Diminutive forms of the Odjibwa noun, 



474 

 Discover native copper, 90 

 Discovery of Itasca Lake, 573 

 Distance from Lake Superior to Lake 



Pepin, 544 

 Distance from St. Peter's to tliegulf, 153 ; 



elevation of the country, 153 

 Distances travelled in the expedition of 



1831, 544 

 Dr. McDonnell's letter, 439 

 Dr. Mitchell's summary of discoveries, 



416 

 Drift-stratum, 115, 322 



