December 24, 1886.] 



SCIJENCE. 



m% 



THE ITASCA LAKE REGION, AS SURVEYED BY HOPEWELL CLARKE, CHIEF OF THE I. B. T. & CO. EXPEDITION, OCTOBER, 



evidence, gives the following testimony in a recent 

 interview in the St. Paul Pioneer press : — 



"I wanted to avoid this controversy, but I sup- 

 pose I might as well teU you whatever I can. 

 Yes, I accompanied Mr. Glazier on his journey at 

 a stipulated salary per week. I went along to 

 write up the incidents of the trip. I suppose 

 Mr. Glazier's object in taking me along was to 

 give a more extended notoriety through what 

 matter I might furnish the press. When we left 

 for the starting-point of our journey, our objec- 

 tive point was Lake Itasca. Glazier had no idea 

 of exploring any lake beyond that point. The 

 idea first entered his head when we were part 

 way between Brainerd and Leech Lake. There 



we met an old man who told us that Itasca was 

 not the farthest lake, and that there was another 

 one a little beyond Itasca. Glazier then began 

 inquiring among the Indians, and he finally 

 found one who seemed to know all about this 

 lake. He had, according to his story, grown 

 potatoes on the bank of the lake. That settled 

 it : so Captain Glazier decided to see this lake. We 

 struck Lake Itasca about halfway up the south- 

 east arm, and paddled to Schoolcraft's Island. 

 Next day we made our camp a short distance from 

 the end of the south-west arm to the lake that the 

 Indians had told us about. Glazier was greatly 

 dehghted with the lake. We sailed around it till 

 we came to the promontory shown in the map. 

 There the captain made a great speech about the 



