A

• A bear trapped, 98
• A box of minerals stolen, 40
• A granitical formation on Lake Superior, 88
• A long fast, 126
• A new philological principle in languages, 455
• A phenomenon, 103
• A precinct of Indian orgies, 115
• A sub-expedition to Sandy Lake, 112
• A war-party surprised, 552
• Account of sub-explorations of Green Bay, 210
• Acipenser oxyrinchus, 95
• Acipenser spatularia, 163
• Advance of Lake Superior to the Rocky Mountains, 109
• African and Indian marriages, 108
• Agaric mineral, 60
• Agate, 87
• Agglutinative properties of the Indian pronoun, 502
• Aggregate fall of the Mississippi below Sandy Lake, 150;
  • commencement of the calcareous rocks, 150
• Algoma, 107
• Algonquin language justly applauded, 122
• Algonac, 50
• Allenoga River, 250
• Allen's Lake, 263
• Aluminous minerals, 354
• American Indian policy, 546
• American antiquities, 166
• Amygdaloid, 90
• An Indian breakfast, 253
• An Indian grave with hieroglyphics, 88
• An Indian nonplused in the woods, 97
• An Indian salute, 120
• Analysis of Lake Superior copper at Utrecht, 364
• Anodonta corpulenta, 516
• Announcement of return of expedition, of 1820, 279
• Antique markings on the pinus resinosa, 552
• Antique notices of the lake mineralogy, 295
• Antiquities, 157;
  • first notice of in 1766, 165
• Apparent tide in the Baltic, 191
• Appearance of dune sand at Point aux Barques, 54
• Appendix No. 2, 449
• Apricots in bloom on the 22d of April, 41
• Arched rock, 61
• Argillaceous stratum of Detroit, 307
• Argillite, 111
• Artesian borings for water, 51
• Art of the wounded duck, 249
• Arts and manufactures of the Chippewas and Ottowas, 70
• Ascent of the Assowa River, 235
• Asphaltum and naphtha, 196
• Assassination of Owen Keveny, 69
• Assowa Lake, 239
• Atmospheric heat 28th June, 96
• Aux Sables Indians, 55

B

• Bark letter in pictographic characters, 433
• Barometrical height of Cass Lake, 139
• Barytic minerals, 357
• Basin of Lake Michigan, 335
• Basin of Lake Superior, 318
• Bat in wood, 396
• Beltrami, 227
• Birch Lake, 263
• Birds inhabiting the region of Pakagama Falls, 130
• Birds of Lake Superior, 104
• Birds of the Wisconsin Valley, 181
• Bituminous minerals, 358
• Bivalve shells, 415
• Black River, 103
• Boatswain to Com. Perry in 1813, 194
• Botany, 408
• Boulders on the shores of Lake St. Clair, 49
• Boundary between Michigan and Wisconsin, 103
• Breadth of the Mississippi at Sandy Lake, 124
• Brigham's residence at Blue Mound, 568
• BrulÉ summit, 273
• Buckshot gravel, 62
• Buffalo hunt, 146

C

• Cabotian Mountains, 110
• Calcareous minerals, 350
• Canadian canoe-song, 189
• Canoe-race, 48
• Capt. Douglass, 210
• Capt. Jouett, 269
• Capture and massacre of the garrison of old Mackinac, 63
• Carnage River, 248
• Carnelian, 87
• Carver's Cave, 159
• Carver's travels, 21
• Cass, his official report, 280
• Cass Lake, 130
• Cass Lake basin, 328
• Cass on Indian hieroglyphics, 430
• Cassville, Wisconsin, 169
• Chagoimegon, 105
• Chalcedony and calcareous spar, 54
• Charles Stokes, Esq., his geological memoir, 315
• Charlevoix's visit to America, 20
• Character and value of Dubuque's lead mines, 172
• Character of the bison, 147
• Character of the Canadian voyageur, 124
• Cheboigan, its etymology, 213
• Chenos, a masked coast, 73
• Chicago, etymology of name, population, and greatness, 198
• Chief Guelle Plat, 255
• Chippewa character of the Kekeewin, 154
• Chippewa dance, 87
• Chippewa term of salutation, 84
• Chippewa village, 94
• Cinnamon-colored radiated quartz, 163
• Claimants to mine lands, 365
• Clinton River, 49
• Club fungus partially fossilized, 204
• Coal in Western New York, 391
• Coast of boulders, 215
• Col. Croghan's attack at Fort Holmes in 1814, 64
• Col. Pierce, 58
• Coluber Æstivus, 50
• Combustibles, 536
• Commercial value of copper, 372
• Conchology, 178
• Connection with Blackhawk's plans disclaimed, 272
• Cooper's description of shells, 515
• Copper-bearing trap-dykes, 89
• Copper boulder, its size, 97
• Copper-head snake, 238
• Copper ores of Mineral Point, 567
• Cormorant, 130
• Corn ripens at St. Peter's Valley, 153
• Cornu-ammonis; a fossiliferous coast, 56
• Corregonus albus, 260
• Cost of lake transportation, 376
• Council at Cass Lake, 251
• Council at Sandy Lake, 226
• Council at St. Peter's agency, 269
• Council at the ultimate point of the first expedition, 133
• Council with Indians;
  • their hostility, 78;
  • they raise the British flag, 79
• Crow-wing River, 145
• Crystals of iron pyrites, 196
• Cupreous formation, 324
• Cup-shaped concavities, 61

D

• Dacota, or Nadownsie Indians, 158
• Danger escaped, 566
• Date and circumstance of Pike's visit to Sandy Lake, 117
• Date of Prairie du Chien, 167
• Date of the battle of Badaxe, 269
• Date of Wisconsin as a territorial name, 176
• De Witt Clinton offers the use of his library, 23
• Dead scaffolded, 122
• Defect of postal facilities, at Mackinac, 65
• Depth of the Detroit clay beds, 51
• Derogative inflections of the Indian noun, 476
• Descent of Itasca River, 246
• Description of the Indian canoe, 47
• Desiderata of discovery, 227
• Detroit completely burnt down in 1805, 44
• Detroit first founded in 1701, 45
• Difficulty of studying the Indian tongues, 441
• Difficulty of the descent of the BrulÉ, 273
• Diluvial elevations, 385
• Diminutive forms of the Odjibwa noun, 474
• Discover native copper, 90
• Discovery of Itasca Lake, 573
• Distance from Lake Superior to Lake Pepin, 544
• Distance from St. Peter's to the gulf, 153;
• elevation of the country, 153
• Distances travelled in the expedition of 1831, 544
• Dr. McDonnell's letter, 439
• Dr. Mitchell's summary of discoveries, 416
• Drift-stratum, 115, 322
• Dubuque City, 170
• Du Ponceau's prize essay, 453

E

• Earliest date of Winnebago history, 194
• Earthy compounds, 534
• Elementary structure of the Algonquin language, 442
• Elk Island, 216
• Elk River, its latitude, 147
• Elevation of Lake Superior, 107
• Elevation of the cliff of La Grange, 162
• Elevation of the country at the Savanna Portage, 120
• Encampment at St. Mary's, 76
• Ephemeral insects, 167
• Epoch of the deposit of St. Mary's sandstone, 539
• Epochs of geological action proved by fossils, 400
• Era of Pontiac's hostile movements, 62
• Era of the discovery of the St. Lawrence, 121
• Erismatolite, 103
• Erratic block stratum, 53
• Erratic block and drift stratum, 61
• Essay on the Odjibwa substantive, 453
• Establishment of a military post at St. Peter's, 152
• Etymology, 116
• Etymology of Manitowakie, 195
• Etymology of Minnesota, 156
• Etymology of Namikong, 85
• Etymology of Pawating, 81
• Etymology of Rum River, 150
• Etymology of the word Konamik, 186
• Etymology of the word Michilimackinac, 70
• Etymology of the word Mississippi, 140
• Etymology of the word Wisconsin, 179
• Etymology of Waganukizzie, 207
• Evidences of ancient Indian cultivation, 59
• Evidences of diluvial action, 318
• Explorations recommended, 285
• Extensive and fertile bow-shaped area, 135

F

• Fallacious appearance of a tide in Green Bay, 191
• Fallacious information of the Indians, respecting the lead mines, 180
• Falls and precipices, 110
• Falls of St. Croix, 270
• Falls of the Montreal River, 103
• Federation group of islands of Lake Superior, 105, 321
• Feud between the Sioux and Chippewas, 545
• Final embarkation at Grosse Point, 49
• Final separation of the party at Fort Dearborn, 197
• First lake vessel built by La Salle, 212
• First steamboat visits Michilimackinac in 1819, 212
• Flat Rock Point, organic remains, 55
• Flock of pigeons drowned in storms, 195
• Flora of Lake Michigan, 206
• Fluor spar, 353
• Fond du Lac, 184
• Fondness of the Indians for melons, 170
• Forest-trees, 143
• Forest-trees buried by oceanic drift, 51
• Fort Holmes, when dismantled, 64
• Fort Howard, 190
• Fort Niagara built, 62
• Fossil fauna of the West, 199
• Fossil wood, 386
• Foundation of old Mackinac, 62
• Fox chief Aquoqua, 171
• Fox River Valley, 184
• Fox Village, 169
• Freshwater conchology, 188
• Freshwater shells of the Fox and Wisconsin, 416
• Friendship of Wawetum, 67
• Friendly act of the daughter of Wabojeeg, 80
• Frogs inclosed in stone, 386
• Fringillia vespertina, or Schoolcraft's grosbec, 515
• Further discussion of the Odjibwa substantive, 470

G

• Galena, 174
• Generalizations on the Mississippi River, 139
• Geographical data of the portage from Lake Superior to the St. Croix and Chippewa Rivers, 540
• Geological deductions, 300
• Geological memoranda, 119
• Geological monuments, 332
• Geology of Mackinac, 66
• Geological outlines of the Lake Superior coast, 109
• Geological phenomena, 245
• Geology, 261
• Glacial action, 216
• Globe of sandstone from a geological pocket-hole, 316
• Grammatical structure of sentences in the Odjibwa, 495
• Granite Point, 88
• Granular gypsum in sandstone, 86
• Graphic granite, 84
• Gratiot's Grove, 564
• Grauwackke, 111
• Grauwackke of Iron River, 321
• Grave of Dubuque, 174
• Gray wolf, 149, 166
• Great copper boulder on Lake Superior, 294
• Great sand dunes, 85
• Green Bay City, 191
• Group of the Manatouline Islands, 74
• Grosbec—new species, 515
• Gypsum, 65, 313

H

• Habits of the anas canadensis, 234
• Helix, 515
• Hennepin, 151
• Henry Inman, 23
• Herds of buffalo east of the Mississippi, 432
• High value of the Lake Superior copper mines urged on Congress, 368
• Highest platform mound on the Mississippi, 157
• Highlands of Sauble, 310
• Historical data respecting Dubuque's mines, 174
• Historical data respecting the smallpox, 578
• Historical facts, 150
• History of Green Bay, 190
• History of the Chippewas, 121
• History of the Fox Indians, 175
• Hochungara, or Winnebagoes, 181
• Holcus fragrans, 157
• Houghton's analysis of the lake copper, 527
• Houghton's plants, 519
• How possessives are formed in the Chippewa, 461
• Human skull in the solid part of a living tree, 396
• Huron coast line, 309
• Huttonian theory, 405
• Hystrix, 73

I

• Ice formed on the 19th of July, 127
• Illigan Lake, 264
• Image stone, 231
• Importance of vaccination to Indians, 581
• Impression of a trilobite in quartz, 66
• Indian altar, 55
• Indian birch-bark letter, 433
• Indian boundary, 149
• Indian chief Red Thunder, 158
• Indian chief Red Wing, 163
• Indian corn-dance, 160
• Indian council, 99
• Indian council at the mouth of the Crow-wing, 267
• Indian dwarf, 178
• Indian language, 453
• Indian myth of Itasca, stanzas on, 243
• Indian oratory, 256
• Indian queen, 254
• Indian summer, 428
• Indian superstition respecting mines, 374
• Indian symbol for a man, 113
• Indian term for geologist, 90
• Indian trait, 151
• Indian translation of an expression, 144
• Indian tribes visited in 1831, 540
• Indian women engage in mining, 173
• Indian women gathering rice, 130
• Indians turn mineralogists, 90
• Inquiries respecting the history of the Indians, 438
• Inter-European amalgamation, 77
• Intrepid act of Gen. Cass, 80
• Iron sand, 106
• Irving's Lake, 230
• Island of ancient Indian sepulchre, 194
• Itasca Lake, 246

J

• James Riley, 78
• Jargon of the northwest, 234
• John Johnston, Esq., 80
• Journey from Albany to Geneva, 41
• Journey in a sleigh across the Highlands, 40

K

• Kabamappa accuses the Sioux of treachery, 548
• Kaginogumaug, or Longwater Lake, 261
• Kakabika Falls, 247
• Kakala, its probable meaning, 187
• Kalamazoo, 203
• Kubba-Kunna, 234

L

• La Hontan's apocryphal discovery on Long River, 19
• Lac PlÈ, 263
• Lac Traverse, 229
• Lac Vieux Desert, 263
• Lacustrine clay-flats of Lake St. Clair, 49
• Lake action, 318
• Lake Audrusia, 228
• Lake Chetac, 543
• Lake Douglass, 265
• Lake drift, 323
• Lake Pepin, 163, 332
• Lake St. Clair, 216
• Landscape of Michilimackinac, 71
• Last year the bison is seen east of the Mississippi, 148
• Latitude of Mackinac, 64
• Lead mines at Dubuque, 168, 333
• Leading events in the life of Gen. Macomb, 72
• Leaf River of the Crow-wing, 266
• Learn the state of the Sauc war, 269
• Leech Lake, 259
• Leech Lake River, 129; etymology, 129
• Left Hand River, 108
• Legal claim to the mine tract, 174
• Length of the Mississippi, 245
• Letter to Nathaniel H. Carter, Esq., 409
• Level of Lake Erie above tide-water, 43
• Limits of the cervus sylvestris, 515
• Line of discovery above Cass Lake, 244
• List of latitudes and longitudes, 289
• List of quadrupeds and birds observed, 413
• Little Crow chief, 157
• Little Vermilion Lake, 262
• Localities of minerals and rock strata, 211
• Locality of freshwater shells, 167
• Long Prairie River, 266
• Longitudinal phenomena, 109
• Lt. Col. Fowle, notice of, 168
• Lupus Americanus, 56
• Lyceum of Natural History, New York, extract from its annals, 532

• M. Woolsey, 588
• Mackinac limestone, 312
• Magnesian minerals, 356
• Magnitude of Lake Michigan, 202
• Marquette's discovery of the Mississippi, 17
• Mass of native copper, on the shores of Winnebago Lake, 185
• Massachusetts Island, 105
• Mean temperature at the sources of the Upper Mississippi River, 123;
  • party for the ultimate discovery of this river, 123
• Mean temperature of St. Peter's Valley, 154
• Mean velocity of current of Mississippi River, 126
• Metallic masses, 100
• Metallic minerals, 340
• Meteorological journal kept at Chicago, 424
• Meteorology, 418
• Metoswa rapids, 229
• Metunna Rapids, 266
• Micaceous oxide of iron, 111
• Michigan—its population at various periods, 46
• Michilimackinac, 57, 311
• Michilimackinac first becomes a capital for the fur trade, 68;
• J. J. Astor occupies it in 1816, 68
• Miera, or Walk-in-the-water, 212
• Milwaukie, its etymology, population, and resources, 196
• Mine of Peosta, 171
• Mineral character of Lake Superior, 100
• Mineralogy and geology, 292
• Mineralogy of the Northwest, 534
• Miners' mode of classifying ore, 564
• Mississippi first crossed by primary rocks, 147
• Mississippi from the influx of the Missouri, 138
• Mistake respecting American antiquities, 157
• Mode of converting a noun to a verb in the Odjibwa, 481
• Mollusks, 127
• Montruille an object of pity, 131
• Mozojeed, a chief of energy, 550
• Mr. Monroe's message of 7th December, 1822, 363
• Mr. Schoolcraft's Report on the Copper Mines of Lake Superior, 292
• Mukkundwa Indians, ethnological sketch, 258
• Murder of Gov. Semple, 255
• Muskego River, 104
• My first portage; what is "a piece," 90
• Mythologic notion, 99

N

• Naiwa rapids, 236
• Native salt and native copper, 155
• Native silver, and its ores, 531
• Natural history, 515
• Nebeesh Island and Rapids, 75
• Neenaba, a partisan chief, 554
• New localities of copper, 375
• New seat for Hygeia and the Muses, 60
• New species in conchology, 417
• Nicollet's table of geographical positions, 582
• Noble reply of an Algonquin chief, 63
• Noble view, 83
• Number in the Chippewa, 457
• Number, value, &c. of the copper mines of Lake Superior, 363

O

• Objects of governmental policy, 558
• Oblations to the dead, 123
• Observe the buffalo, 146
• Odjibwa animate and inanimate adjectives, 490
• Odjibwa compound words, 483
• Odjibwa numerals, 501
• Odjibwamong, 82
• Offering food to the dead, 123
• Official report of Gen. Cass, 280
• Okunzhewug, a chieftainess, murdered, 550
• Old English Copper-mining Company, 296
• Old Mackinac, its date, 208
• Onzig River, 84
• Ores and metals, 536
• Organic impressions, 313
• Organization of the expedition of 1832, 223
• Origin of the Indian race, 439
• Ornithology, 130
• Ortho-cerite limestone, 74
• Ottowa Lake, 542

P

• Pakagama Falls, 127
• PalÆontological rocks, 330
• Palaozoic sandstone, 539
• Peace Rock, 149
• Pelican, 177
• Perch or Assawa Lake, 362
• Period of the first military occupation of old Mackinac, 64
• Petrified leaf, with a sketch, 206
• Pewabik River, 102
• Physical Character of the Crow-wing River, 267
• Physical characters of the Mississippi, 133
• Pictographic device, 148
• Pictographic Indian inscription, 113
• Pictographic mode of communicating ideas, 430
• Pictured rocks, 86
• Pike's Bay, 251
• Pipe-stone, or opwagunite, 155
• Planorbis, 515
• Planorbis companulatus, 246
• Plants collected by Dr. Houghton, 519
• Plastic clay of St. Clair flats, 308
• Plateau of lakes and marshes, 128
• Polydon, 416
• Polyganum, 124
• Population and statistics of Mackinac in 1820, 64
• Population of Detroit in 1820, 45
• Population of Leech Lake, 260
• Population of Ottowas, 203
• Porcupine Mountains, 91, 323
• Porphyry and conglomerate boulders, 317
• Portage to the sources of Crow-wing River, 260
• Positive and negative forms of speech, in the Odjibwa, 497
• Potatoes vegetate in pure pebbles, 62
• Pouched rat, 156
• Practicability of working the Superior mines of copper and iron, 370;
  • advantages of transportation, 371
• Preliminary incidents at Washington, 39
• Preliminary Report of Exploring Expedition of 1832, 573
• Primary forks of the Mississippi, 232;
• country disposed in plateaux, 233
• Principles of the Odjibwa noun-adjective, 489
• Produce of the copper mines of the world, 379
• Pseudomorphous forms, 314
• Pseudostoma pinetorum, 156
• Pusabika River, 102

Q

• Quartz geodes, 334
• Quartzite rock, 127
• Queen Anne's Lake, 280
• Question of prepositions, 471

R

• Racine, 197
• Rapid glances at the geology of Western New York, 381
• Rapids of the Mississippi above Sandy Lake, 125
• Rattlesnake of the Wisconsin Hills, 181
• Reach Detroit, after a passage of 62 hours, 44
• Reach Itasca Lake, its outline, 241
• Reach Lake Superior, 274
• Rebus nutkanus, 129
• Reciprocal death in a combat, 201
• Red Banks, 194
• Red jasper in quantity, 58
• Red oxide of iron, 155
• Red sandstone, 91
• Red sandstone of Lake Superior, 316
• Register of temperature in the United States, 426
• Reorganization of the first expedition at Chicago, 200
• Report of Dr. Houghton on the copper of Lake Superior, 526
• Report of Mr. Schoolcraft to the Senate on the mineral lands of Lake Superior, 362
• Residents of Chicago in 1820, 197
• Return of expedition of 1820 to Detroit, 217;
• summary notice of, 217
• Return to Sandy Lake, 142
• Returns of the Cornwall and Devon copper mines, 378
• Rifle shooting, 83
• Rise of waters in the lakes, 214
• River St. Croix, 162
• Robert de la Salle, 17
• Rosa parviflora, 144
• Ruins of Fort St. Joseph, built in 1795, 75
• Rule of euphony in the Algonquin language, 444;
  • active and passive voices, 446;
  • philosophical mode of denoting number, 445