Notes on the Northwest

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Excerpt from Notes on the Northwest: Or Valley of the Upper Mississippi This country (west of Lake Michigan) was almost un known to geographers twenty years ago. The report of Rev. J. Morse to the Secretary of War, in 1821, states that in 1819 there were but three families settled from the mouth of the Illinois up two hundred and forty miles, and Darby, in his Gazetteer (2d edit., says, of this immense re gion (included between Lakes Michigan and Superior, Rivers Missisippi and Red, the State of Missouri and the northern boundary of the United States) much remains unknown, and of those parts that have been explored, our information is generally imperfect. [verb Michigan.] Galena was settled in 1828, and in 1833, after the Black Hawk war, settlements began on Rock River and the northern parts of Illinois and in Iowa, upon the tract purchased of the Sacs and Foxes. In the list of rivers ¿owing into the Upper Mis sisippi, in the same work, are several defects and errors. On the right side, Root and Wabsipinicon and Checagua (or Skunk) are omitted, and that now known to the inhabitants of Iowa as Téte des Morts, is called Galena. On the left, some considerable streams are not named. The falls of St. Anthony are placed, in the same authority, in latitude which is one degree south of their true situation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.