Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14759923786)

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Title: Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864. dn United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. cn
Subjects: Indians of North America United States
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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natural recipientsof several large rivers which flow from the borders of this great valley, in a long hne ofdividing lands, which stretch from Chicago, at the head of Lake Michigan, to Fond duLac, at the head of Lake Superior. The whole course of the Upper Mississippi is, infact, a natural appendage to the trade and resources of this great system of lakes.This will more fully appear from a few considerations. The parallel of 49° passes north of the great diluvial elevations separating thewaters flowing into Hudsons Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, from those of the Gulf ofSt. Lawrence. The Mississippi river originates in these eminences, in the Itasca basin,lying in latitude 47° 13 35, at a distance from the Gulf of Mexico of a fraction overthree thousand miles. This lake, we quote from a MS. Gool. Report of 1822, restsin a drift formation, consisting of marine sand, pebbles and boulders, which rise to ainaxiinum of 138 feet above the level of tlie lake. This formation is superimposed on
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