[14] Prairie du Chien.
[15] St. Peter’s.
[16] Family mark, or coat of arms—a kind of surname.
[17] Report of the proceedings connected with the disputes between the Earl of Selkirk and the North West Company, at the assizes held at York in Upper Canada, Oct. 1818. Montreal. 8vo. 564 p.
[18] Genera Unio, Anodonta, alasmadonta.
[19] This Chief attacked a Sioux war party, which imprudently ventured in the vicinity, in the fall of this year, (1832,) and achieved a victory, in which he killed forty persons, and lost not a single man.
[20] The total descent of the river at these falls, including the rapids above and below them, is stated in my “Narrative Journal of Travels to the Sources of the Mississippi,” at 65 feet, an estimate which it is believed may exceed the actual aggregate descent, and certainly does so, in the hasty estimate which is given of the perpendicular fall.
[21] I am not certain that I fully comprehend the brevity of Mr. Eaton’s division of this formation of the English geologists; but if I do so, he deduces from it, or from its equivalent in American geology, 1. Second graywake, 2. Calciferous sand-rock, 3. Silicious lime rock, 4. Metalliferous limerock.
[22] Alluding to a mound on an eminence at the mouth of the river.
[23] Vide Letter to his Excellency Gov. Porter, in the Appendix.