Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 / Resumed and Completed, by the Discovery of its Origin in Itasca Lake, in 1832

by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

[152] Vide Letters on Lake Superior, in Southern Literary Messenger, 1836.

[153] An outline of the expedition of 1831 is found in Schoolcraft's "Thirty Years on the American Frontiers." Lippincott & Co. Phila. 1850.

[154] This is an anagram composed of the names of Schoolcraft, Cass, and Pike, the geographical discoverers, in reversed order, of the region.

[155] Beltrami.

[156] This name is derived from ozawau, yellow; winisis, hair, and kundiba, bone of the forehead or head.

[157] The term "sitter," which is a northwest phrase in common use, is equivalent to the Canadian word bourgoise.

[158] From Andrew Jackson, at that time President of the United States.

[159] This word appears to be a derivation from pemidj, across, muscoda, a prairie, and ackee, land.

[160] In allusion to an interesting period of British history, in its influences on America.

[161] An object of analogous kind was noticed, during the prior expedition of 1820, at an island in Thunder Bay of Lake Huron. Vide p. [55].