OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE SOURCE OF ST. PETER'S RIVER, LAKE WINNEPEEK, LAKE OF THE WOODS, &c. &c. PERFORMED IN THE YEAR 1823, BY ORDER OF THE HON. J. C. CALHOUN, SECRETARY OF WAR, UNDER THE COMMAND OF STEPHEN H. LONG, MAJOR U. S. T. E COMPILED FROM THE NOTES OF MAJOR LONG, MESSRS. SAY, BY WILLIAM H. KEATING, A. M. &c. PROFESSOR OF MINERALOGY AND CHEMISTRY AS APPLIED TO THE ARTS, IN HISTORIOGRAPHER TO THE EXPEDITION. H. C. CAREY & I. LEA-CHESNUT STREET. 1824. 203.e.65. EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-ninth day of November, in the forty-ninth year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1824, H. C. CAREY & I. LEA of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Lake "Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c. &c. performed in the year 1823, "by order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the com"mand of Stephen H. Long, Major U. S. T. E. Compiled from the "notes of Major Long, Messrs. Say, Keating, and Colhoun, by Wil"liam H. Keating, A. M. &c. Professor of Mineralogy and Chemistry "as applied to the Arts, in the University of Pennsylvania; Geologist "and Historiographer to the Expedition. In two volumes-Vol. II." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned."—And also to the act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of design, ing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. SKERRETT-LOCUST STREET, PHILADELPHIA. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. The party leave Lake Travers. They fall in with large herds of buffalo. Observations upon the rovings of this animal. Meeting with a war party of the Wahkpakotas who manifest hostile dis- Fort Douglas, and Lord Selkirk's colony. Bark canoes. Lake Winnepeek. Fort Alexander. River Winnepeek. Rapids. Portages. Fine falls. Lake of the Woods. North-westernmost point of the boundary line. Rainy Lake river and lake. Fort. Series of rapids and lakes. Dividing ridge. Falls of Kamana- Departure from Fort William. Trap formations on Lake Supe- rior. Michipicotton house. Arrival at the Sault de St. Marie. General description of the country traversed by the Expedition, designed as a topographical report to the War Department, by S. H. Long, Major United States' Topographical Engineers. I. Of the country between Philadelphia and the Ohio river II. Of the country between the Ohio river and Lake Michigan III. Of the country and navigable communications between Lake |