The Question of the Sources of the Mississippi River
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But whence came the French names cited by Morrison himself? Lac de La Biche, which has become, in English, Elk lake; lac Travers, lac La Folie? It must be be- lieved, that French hunters or traders, or possibly mixed- bloods speaking French, had preceded him; and that, if they had not visited the very source, they had, from the natives, learned of it with sufficient precision to give originally, or by translation of Indian words, the French names to these lakes.
After the cession of Louisiana, ...the United States Govern- ment commissioned Lieutenant Pike to examine the sources of the Mississippi; but he went no farther than a lake called Ked Cedar, which is none other than the Cass lake of the present day. He wrote (1806) : "This may be called the upper source of the Mississippi river. " It was far from it. Four- teen years later (1820), General Lewis Cass, Governor of Michi- gan, directed to the same end an expedition that set out from the head of lake Superior and proceeded as far as the lake later QUESTION OF THE SOURCES OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
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But whence came the French names cited by Morrison himself? Lac de La Biche, which has become, in English, Elk lake; lac Travers, lac La Folie? It must be be- lieved, that French hunters or traders, or possibly mixed- bloods speaking French, had preceded him; and that, if they had not visited the very source, they had, from the natives, learned of it with sufficient precision to give originally, or by translation of Indian words, the French names to these lakes.
After the cession of Louisiana, ...the United States Govern- ment commissioned Lieutenant Pike to examine the sources of the Mississippi; but he went no farther than a lake called Ked Cedar, which is none other than the Cass lake of the present day. He wrote (1806) : "This may be called the upper source of the Mississippi river. " It was far from it. Four- teen years later (1820), General Lewis Cass, Governor of Michi- gan, directed to the same end an expedition that set out from the head of lake Superior and proceeded as far as the lake later QUESTION OF THE SOURCES OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
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