[92] Schoolcraft's View of the Lead Mines of Missouri. Scenes and Adventures in the Ozark Mountains, the Catlinite of Dr. Jackson.
[93] The last known platform mound in the spread of the mound-builders north, is at Prairie du Chien. The monuments, supposed to be mounds, in the St. Peter's region, are found by Mr. Owen to be geological elevations. The remains on Blue Earth River are attributed to a fort or inclosure built by Le Seur, in his search for copper on that stream, in 1700. Other remains, in the St. Peter's valley, appear to be old trading-houses, fallen in.
[94] This is an Algonquin expression, signifying enemy. It is derived from Nodowa, an Iroquois, or a Dacota; the word was originally applied to a serpent. The termination in sie is from awasie, an animal or creature. This term is the root, it is apprehended, of the French sobriquet Sioux.
[95] St. Paul's, the present capital of Minnesota (1854), is situated on the high grounds, a few miles below this cave.
[96] Carver's Cave is four miles lower down, on the same side of the river, agreeably to subsequent observation. It is now obstructed by fallen rock and debris.
[97] This river was explored by me in 1832. Vide Schoolcraft's Expedition to Itasca Lake. 1 vol. 8vo. p. 307—1834: N. Y., Harp.
[98] In 1831, this river was ascended by me with a public expedition, dispatched into the Indian country to quell the disturbances which eventuated the next year in the Sauk war. Vide Schoolcraft's Thirty Years in the Indian Country. Lippincott, Grambo, & Co., Philad.: 1 vol. p. 703, 1851.
[99] Doc. 237.
[100] Silliman's Journal of Science, 1823; also, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc.
[101] Travellers who are disposed to regard La Hontan's fiction of his purported discoveries on Rivier la Longue, as entitled to notice, have suggested this river as the locality intended. Nicollet, otherwise reliable, has gone so far as to call it La Hontan River.