594 



INDEX, 



Origin of the Indian race, 439 

 Ornithology, 130 

 Ortho-cerite limestone, 74 

 Ottowa Lake, 542 



Pakagania Falls, 127 



Palajontological rocks, 330 



Palaozoic sandstone, 539 



Peace Rock, 149 



Pelican, 177 



Perch or Assawa Lake, 362 



Period of the first military occupation of 



old Mackinac, 04 

 Petrified leaf, with a sketch, 206 

 Pewabik River, 102 

 Physical Character of the CroTf-wing 



River, 267 

 Physical characters of the Mississippi, 188 

 Pictographic device, 148 

 Pictographic Indian inscription, 113 

 Pictographic mode of communicating 



ideas, 430 

 Pictured rocks, 86 

 Pike's Bay, 251 

 Pipe-stone, or opwagunite, 155 

 Planorbis, 515 

 Planorbis companulatus, 246 

 Plants collected by Dr. Houghton, 519 

 Plastic clay of St. Clair flats, 308 

 Plateau of lakes and marshes, 128 

 Polydon, 416 

 Polj'ganum, 124 

 Population and statistics of Mackinac in 



1820, 64 

 Population of Detroit in 1820, 45 

 Population of Leech Lake, 260 

 Population of Ottowas, 203 

 Porcupine Mountains, 91, 323 

 Porphyry and conglomerate boulders, 317 

 Portage to the sources of Crow-wing 



River, 200 

 Positive and negative forms of speech, in 



the Odjibwa, 497 

 Potatoes vegetate in pure pebbles, 62 

 Pouched rat, 156 



Practicability of working the Superior 

 mines of copper and iron, 370 ; advan- 

 tages of transportation, 371 

 Preliminary incidents at Washington, 39 

 Preliminary Report of Exploring Expedi- 

 tion of 1832, 573 

 Primary forks of the Mississippi, 232 ; 



country disposed in plateaux, 233 

 Principles of the Odjibwa noun-adjective, 



489 

 Produce of the copper mines of the 



world, 379 

 Pseudomorphous forms, 314 

 Pseudostoma pinetorum, 156 

 Pusabika River, 102 



Q 



Quartz geodes, 834 

 Quartzite rock, 127 

 Queen Anne's Lake, 230 

 Question of prepositions, 471 



R 



Racine. 197 



Rapid glances at the geology of Western 



New York, 881 

 Rapids of the Mississippi above Sandy 



Lake, 125 

 Rattlesnake of the Wisconsin Hills, 181 

 Reach Detroit, after a passage of 62 



hours, 44 

 Reach Itasca Lake, its outline, 241 

 Reach Lake Superior, 274 

 Rebus nutkanus, 129 

 Reciprocal death in a combat, 201 

 Red Banks, 194 

 Red jasper in quantity, 58 

 Red oxide of iron, 155 

 Red sandstone, 91 



Red sandstone of Lake Superior, 316 

 Register of temperature in the United 



States, 426 

 Reorganization of the first expedition at 



Chicago, 200 

 Report of Dr. Houghton on the copper 



of Lake Superior, 526 

 Report of Mr. Schoolcraft to the Senate 

 on the mineral lands of Lake Supe- 

 rior, 362 

 Residents of Chicago in 1820, 197 

 Return of expedition of 1820 to Detroit, 



217; summary notice of, 217 

 Return to Sandy Lake, 142 

 Returus of the Cornwall and Devon cop- 

 per mines, 878 

 Rifle shooting, 83 

 Rise of waters in the lakes, 214 

 River St. Croix, 162 

 Robert de la Salle, 17 

 Rosa parviflora, 144 

 Ruins of Fort St. Joseph, built in 1795, 



75 

 Rule of euphony in the Algonquin lan- 

 guage, 444 ; active and passive voices, 

 446 ; philosophical mode of denoting 

 number, 445 



Sacred island of the Indians, 70 



Saganaw Bay, 54, 310 



Saliferous red clay, 389 



Sandstone in a vertical position, 102 



Sandstone rock found in place on the 



east coast of Lake Huron, 52 

 Sandy Lake, 327 

 Sarracenia purpurea, or owl's moccasin, 



214 



