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

[258] The meaning is white raven.

[259] The term is from dain-da, a bullfrog.

[260] This is the prairie grouse of the West.

[261] The name is generic for the owl family.

[262] This term arises from adik, a reindeer, and gumaig, waters.

[263] Broke instrument.

[264] In Europe, the mean annual temperature necessary for the production of certain plants is—

For the sugar-cane	67°
coffee	64
orange	63
olive	54
vine (vitis vinifera)	51

[265] Below zero.

[266] Meteorological journal kept at the Albany Academy for October, 1820.