APPENDIX I.
Page 253.—“and nothing but fire.”
The Indians call the Rice Lake, in allusion to the rapidity with which fires run over the dry herbage, the Lake of the Burning Plains. Certainly, there is much poetical fitness and beauty in many of the Indian names, approximating very closely to the figurative imagery of the language of the East; such is “Mad-wa-osh,” the music of the winds.