INDEX. 



593 



Left Ilaml llivcr, 108 

 Legal thiiiu to the mine tract, 174 

 Length of the Mississippi, 245 

 Letter to Nathaniel H. Carter, Esq., 409 

 Level of Lake Erie above tide-water, 43 

 Limits of the cervus sylvestris, 515 

 Line of tliscovery above Cass Lake, 244 

 List of latitudes and longitudes, 289 

 List of quadrupeds and birds observed, 



413 

 Little Crow chief, 157 

 Little Vermilion Lake, 2G2 

 Localities of minerals and rock strata, 



211 

 Locality of freshwater shells, 167 

 Long Prairie lliver, 26(3 

 Longitudinal phenomena, 109 

 Lt. Col. Fowle, notice of, 108 

 Lupus Americanus, 56 

 Lj-ceum of Natural History, New York, 



extract from its annals, 532 



M 



M. Woolsey, 588 



Mackinac limestone, 312 



Magnesian minerals, 356 



Magnitude of Lake Michigan, 202 



Marquette's discovery of the Mississippi, 

 17 



Mass of native copper, on the shores of 

 Winnebago Lake, 185 



Massachusetts Island, 105 



Mean temperature at the sources of the 

 L'pper Mississippi Piiver, 123 ; party 

 for the ultimate discovery of this river, 

 123 



Mean temperature of St. Peter's Valley, 

 154 



Mean velocity of ciu'rent of Mississippi 

 Pviver, 126 



Metallic masses, 100 



Metallic minerals, 340 



Meteorological journal kept at Chicago, 

 424 



Meteorology, 418 



Metoswa rapids, 229 



Metunna Kapids, 260 



Micaceous oxide of iron. 111 



Michigan — its population at various pe- 

 riods, 46 



Michilimackinac, 57, 311 



Michilimackinac first becomes a capital 

 for the fur trade, 68; J. J. Astor occu- 

 pies it in 1816, 68 



Miera, or Walk-in-the-water, 212 



Jlihvaukie, its etymology, population, and 

 resources, 198 



Mine of Peosta, 171 



Mineral character of Lake Superior, 100 



Mineralogy and geology, 292 



Mineralogy of the Northwest, 534 



38 



Miners' mode of classifying ore, 564 

 Mississippi first crossed by primary rocks, 



147 

 Mississippi from the influx of the Mis- 

 souri, 138 

 Mistake respecting American antiquities, 



157 

 Mode of converting a noun to a verb in 



the Odjibwa, 481 

 Mollusks, 127 



Montruille an object of pity, 131 

 Mozojeed, a chief of energy, 550 

 Mr. Monroe's message of 7tli December, 



1822, 363 

 Mr. Schoolcraft's Report on the Copper 



Mines of Lake Superior, 292 

 Mukkundwa Indians, ethnological sketch, 



258 

 IMurder of Gov. Semple, 255 

 Muskego River, 104 



My first portage; what is "a piece," 90 

 Mythologic notion, 99 



N 

 Naiwa rapids, 236 

 Native salt and native copper, 155 

 Native silver, and its ores, 531 

 Natural history, 515 

 Nebeesh Island and Rapids, 75 

 Neenaba, a partisan chief, 554 

 New localities of copper, 375 

 New seat for Hygeia and the Muses, 60 

 New species in conchology, 417 

 Nicollet's table of geographical positions, 



582 

 Noble reply of an Algonquin chief, 68 

 Noble view, 83 



Number in the Chippewa, 457 

 Number, value, &c. of the coi^per mines 



of Lake Superior, 863 







Objects of governmental policy, 55^ 



Oblations to the dead, 123 



Observe the buffalo, 146 



Odjibwa animate and inanimate adject- 

 ives, 490 



Odjibwa compound words, 483 



Odjibwa numerals, 501 



Odjibwamong, 82 



Offering food to the dead, 123 



Official report of Gen. Cass, 280 



Okunzhewug, a chieftainess, murdered, 

 550 



Old English Copper-mining Company, 296 



Old Mackinac, its date, 208 



Onzig River, 84 



Ores and metals, 536 



Organic impressions, 313 



Organization of the expedition of 1832, 



