report intended to illustrate a map of the hydrographical basin of the upper mississippi river1843 |
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A.-TABLE OF GEOGRAPHICAL altitudes APPENDIX A.-TABLE April ascending astronomical August barometer borders Chippeways chronometers Coteau des Prairies Coteau du Missouri Council Bluffs creek cretaceous Crossing-place Devil's lake distance east elevation expedition exploration Falls of St feet fork Fort Pierre Fort Snelling fossils French GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONS-Continued Gulf of Mexico High prairies hills Hontan river Indians island Jacques river July July 26 June Laclede latitude Leech lake left bank limestone Linn Longitude in arc Longitudes in Longitudes Louis lower Mankato river mean Michx miles Mini-wakan Missouri river Moines mouth navigation Nicollet North lati Nutt Orleans Peter's river Pierre Chouteau Places of observation plateau portage portion Prairie du Chien Pursh rapids ravines Red Pipestone Red river right bank rivière rocks rocky Sandy Shayen-oju river side soil sources species specimens Spirit lake spot station swamps tion Torr tudes Upper Missouri valley West of Greenwich whilst Willd
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Stran 57 - The honor of having first explored the sources of the Mississippi and introduced a knowledge of them in physical geography, belongs to Mr. Schoolcraft and Lieutenant Allen. I come only after these...
Stran 56 - Hercules, giving promise of the strength of his maturity ; for its velocity has increased ; it transports the smaller branches of trees ; it begins to form sand-bars ; its bends are more decided, until it subsides again into the basin of a third lake somewhat larger than the two preceding. Having here acquired renewed vigor, and tried its consequence upon an additional length of two or three miles, it finally empties into Itasca lake, which is the principal reservoir of all the sources to which it...
Stran 20 - Having procured a copy of Lahontan's book, in which there is a roughly made map of his Long River, I was struck with the resemblance of its course as laid down, with that of Cannon River, which I had previously sketched in my own field book.
Stran 20 - I soon convinced myself that the principal statements of the Baron in reference to the country, and the few details he gives of the physical character of the river, coincide remarkably with what I had laid down, as belonging to Cannon River.
Stran 165 - List of Fossils belonging to the several formations alluded to in the Report ; arranged according to localities.
Stran 72 - Earth river; thence west, along the said parallel of latitude, to a point where it is intersected by a meridian line, seventeen degrees and thirty minutes west of the meridian of Washington city ; thence due south to the northern boundary line of the State of Missouri...
Stran 80 - In the mean while, an English merchant, named Williamson, bribed a Kaskaskia Indian with a barrel of rum, and the promise of a greater reward if he could succeed in killing Pontiac. He was struck with a pakamagon, (tomahawk,) and his skull fractured, which caused his death. This murder, which roused the vengeance of all the Indian tribes friendly to Pontiac, brought about the successive wars and almost total extermination of the Illinois nation. Pontiac was a remarkably well-looking man; nice in...
Stran 79 - either commissioned by one of the English Governors, or instigated by the love he bore the English nation, the savage attended him as a spy, " and being convinced from the speech Pontiac made in the council, that he still retained his former prejudices against those for whom he now professed a friendship, he plunged his knife into his heart, as soon as he had done speaking, and laid him dead on the spot.
Stran 10 - From its summit, proceeding from its western to its eastern limits, grand views are afforded. At its eastern border particularly, the prospect is magnificent beyond description, extending over the immense green turf that forms the basin of the Red River of the north, the forest-capped summits of the hauteurs des terres that surround the sources of the Mississippi, the granitic valley of the Upper St.
Stran 35 - A calcareous marl, generally from 30 to 40 feet thick." A. "Argillaceous limestone, containing Inoceramus Barab'mi ['] in great numbers and very much compressed, and so arranged as to give the rock a slaty appearance" (at Dixon's Bluff).* The importance of these divisions does not appear to have been fully appreciated, or the collection of fossils was not sufficient to establish the restriction of species within the limits thus indicated. In the mean time the explorations of Lieut. Fremont, of Lieut.