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Chapter XLVIII: Appendix: 1. Indian Language (7)

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Sacred island of the Indians, 70
Saganaw Bay, 54, 310
Saliferous red clay, 389
Sandstone in a vertical position, 102
Sandstone rock found in place on the east coast of Lake Huron, 52
Sandy Lake, 327
Sarracenia purpurea, or owl's moccasin, 214
Saurian, 249
Savanna of Gatchi Betobeeg, 141
Savanna summit, 118
Saw-mills in the Indian territory, 555
Scenery of Lake Superior, 587
Schoolcraft's examination of the Indian vowels, 443
Schoolcraft's geological report, 304
Schoolcraft's Island, 243
Schoolcraft's official report in 1831, 540
Septaria, 203
Serpentine rock, 322
Sexual nouns, 479
Sheboigan, its etymology, 195
Shingabawossin reopens negotiations, 81
Sienitic and hornblende rock, 148
Silicious minerals, 345
Silurian limestone, 167
Silver, a boulder specimen, 532
Silver medal presented, 99
Sioux masses of colored clays, 155
Site of a massacre in 1812, 200
Site of an ancient dune, 308
Skeleton paradigm of the Indian verb, 507
Sketch of Sandy Lake, 116
Sketch of the banks of the Mississippi from St. Anthony, 137
Sketch of the river at the Copper Rock, 97
Sketches addressed to Gen. George P. Morris, 560
Skull Cave, on the island of Mackinac, 66,
Alexander Henry's adventures in 1763, 66.
Smallpox appears among the Chippewas in 1750, 578
Society on the island;
its peculiar phases, 69
Soil and climate of Minnesota, 153
Soldiers poor canoemen, 269
Source of Assowa River, 240;
portage over the height of land, 240
South coast line of Lake Superior, 320
Species of freshwater shells, 181
St. Anthony's Falls, its Indian name, 151
St. Mary's Canal, 82
St. Paul's, Minnesota, 159
State of geological knowledge in 1819, 381
Stationary distances on Lake Superior, 92
Statistics of maple sugar made by the Indians, 71
Statistics of the fur trade, 68
Staurotide; native silver, 53
Steamboat Walk-in-the-Water, 43
Straits of St. Mary, 315
Stratification, 81
Stratum of quartzite rock, 141
Sub-exploring party, 94
Sub-formative pronouns in the Algonquin language, 509;
relative pronouns, 509;
demonstrative pronouns, 513
Summit Lake, 263
Sun above the horizon at 12 P. M., 106
Superstition of the Indians, 571
Synopsis of Appendix No. 1, 277

T

Table of latitudes and longitudes in the Northwest, 582
Tabular view of minerals of the Northwest, 338
Temperature required by tropical plants, 426
Tenacity of life of the deer, 235
Tensal inflections in the Algonquin, 478
Testimonial to Capt. Douglass and Mr. Schoolcraft, 287
The glutton, 141
The Mississippi viewed in sections, 137
The trap-rock the true copper-bearing medium, 530
Thirteen-striped squirrel, 156
Time required in passing Lake Superior, 107
Topography and astronomy, 288
Tortoise, 113
Tortuous channel, 129
Totem, 123
Tour from Galena to Fort Winnebago, 560
Track of Indian migration, 122
Tramp through a swamp, 112
Treaty of June 16, 1820, 81
Trunk of a tree fossilized, 396
Turtle River, 131

U

Ultimate point reached by the first expedition, 132
Unio, 167, 517
Unio food for the wild duck, 234
Unio Schoolcraftensis, 181
Upper Red Cedar Lake, 130
Uva ursi, 88

V

Vaccination of Indians, 574
Valley of Taquimenon, 537
Valley of the St. Croix, 332
Valley of the St. Louis, 325
Vast caldron in grauwackke, 103
Verbs in the Algonquin, how changed to substantives, 482
Vermilion canoe, 254
Vesicular crumbling limestone, 60
Vestiges of a wreck on Lake Michigan, 202
View of Lake Huron, 51
Views of skeptics on the Mosaical chronology, 407
Virginia Island, 105
Visit Niagara, its etymology, 41, 42
Visit to Gen. Dodge at his residence, 567
Visit to the locality of the great mass of copper on Lake Superior, 299
Vitric boulders, 324
Volcanic upheavals, 305
Voyageurs hired not to drink spirits, and to keep the Sabbath, 268

W

War-party of Neenaba broken up, 553
Water-worn agates on the lacustrine summit, 112
Waughpekennota, 193
White crystalline sand rock, 331
White Rock, 52
White springs of Ontario, 385
Width of Sandy Lake River at its outlet, 226
Width of the Mississippi at the outlet of Cass Lake, 227
Winnebago idea of geology, 185
Winonao laita, 164
Wisconsin, 183, 333
Wisconsin lead mines;
aspect of the country, 561
Wolverine, 141

Y

Year 1820 opens with severe weather, 40
Yellow River war-party, 549

Z

Zeolite, 87
Zinc found in the Wisconsin mines, 565
Zoned agate, 237
Zoological objects inclosed in rock, or the solid parts of trees,
&c., 392
Zoology, 408

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