[13] Now the site of Algonac.
[14] To cover any arrangements of this kind, general orders had been issued by Gen. Macomb, to the commandants of the western posts.
[15] In the artesian borings for water, undertaken by Mr. Lucius Lyon, at Detroit, in 1833, these clay beds were found to be one hundred and fifteen feet deep.—Vide Historical and Scientific Sketches of Michigan, p. 177.
[16] This term has disappeared from the geological vocabulary under the researches of Sir Roderick J. Murchison, Mr. Lyell, and other distinguished generalizers.
[17] In passing along this coast in 1824, an Indian picked up, in shallow water, a small boulder imbedding a mass of native silver. Breaking off the most prominent mass, he still observed the metal forming veins in the rock, and brought both specimens to an officer of the British Indian department at Amherst (Lieut. Lewis S. Johnson), who presented them to me. This discovery is described in the Annals of the New York Lyceum of Natural History, vol. i. part 8, page 247.
[18] This is presumed to be a variety of the American Hare, and may be distinguished by the following characters: Body eighteen inches long; color of the hair grayish-brown on the back, grayish-white beneath. Neck and body rusty and cenerous. Legs pale rust color. Tail short, brown above, white beneath. Hind legs longest, and callous a short distance from the paws up. Ears tipped with black. Covering of the body rusty fur, beneath long coarse hair. Probable weight six pounds.
[19] Of this officer, who was a brother of Franklin Pierce, President of the United States, Gardner's Army Dictionary gives the following notice: Benjamin K. Pierce (N. H.), First Lieutenant Third Artillery, March, 1812; Adjutant, 1813; Captain, October, 1813; retained May 15, in artillery; in Fourth Artillery, May 21; Major ten years fa. service, Oct. 1, 1823; Major First Artillery, June 11, 1836 (Lieutenant-Colonel Eighth Infantry, July 7, 1838, declined); Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel "for distinguished service in affair at Fort Drane," Aug. 21, 1836 (Oct. 1836), in which he commanded: Colonel Regular Creek Mounted Volunteers, in Florida War, Oct. 1836; Lieutenant-Colonel First Artillery, March 19, 1842. Died April 1, 1850, at New York.
[20] Among the erratic block or drift stratum, I observed on the south Huron coast singularly striking, round fragments of white quartz, imbedding red fragments of coarse jasper; a rock, which I afterwards found in places on the south end of Sugar Island, in St. Mary's Straits, which lies directly north of the general position, and may serve as a proof of the course of the drift.
[21] Vide Geo. Report, [Appendix].
[22] Neither Fort Niagara nor Fort Ponchartrain (at the present site of Detroit) were then in existence. The foundation of the former was laid by La Salle, in 1678; the latter had not been erected when La Hontan passed through the country, in 1688.—Herriot's Travels through Canada, p. 196.