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wind their way, as if hesitating in what di- 

 rection to discharge their waters ; whether 

 to mingle with arctic ice, or to empty them- 

 selves into ifitertropic il seas. Here, two 

 noble streams take their rise from nearly the 

 same source, one of which empties at a dis- 

 tance of twelve hundred miles iiito Hudson's 

 Bay, at the TjTth parallel of latitude ; and the 

 other, after travelling nearly three thousand 

 miles, is discharged in the latitude of 29° 

 into the Gulf of Mexico. The party de- 

 scended Red River to Lake Winnipeck, 

 and travelled through a succession of 

 streams and lakes, of which the Lake of the 

 Woods, Rainy Lake, &lc. are the most im- 

 portant. They passed over the height of 

 land which divides the valley of Hudson's 

 Bay from the valley of the St. Lawrence, and 

 entered Lake Superior near Fort William, 

 They returned to Sault St. Marie, coasting 

 along the northern shore of that noble in- 

 land sea. Valuable contributions to our 

 Zoology and Geology were the consequen- 

 ces of this expedition. 



In the following year Mr. Schoolcraft pub- 

 lished his Travels in th". central portions of the 

 Mississippi valley^ performed under the aus- 



