PERFORMED AS A MEMBER OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER IN THE YEAR 1820. By HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT, Member of the New-York Historical Society, of the Academy of Natural Sciences at NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW-YORK, To Wit: L. S. BE IT REMEMBERED. that on the thirtieth day of January, in the forty fifth year of & E. Horord The Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1821, E. District, have deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors in the words following, to wit:- Narra tive Journal of Travels, through the northwestern regions of the United States, extending from Detroit through the great chain of American Lakes to the sources of the Mississippi River, performed as a member of the expedition under Governor Cass, in the year 1820 By Henry R. Schoolcraft, member of the New York Historical Society, of the Academy of Natura! Sciences at Philadelphis, of the New-York Lyceum of Natural History, and of the Lyceum of Natural History of Troy. Embellished with map and eight copper plate engravings." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;" and also, to the act entitled "An aet supplementary to an act entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of Designing, Engraving and Etching historical and other prints." RICHARD R. LANSING, Clerk of the Northern District of New-York. Checked May 1913 TO THE HON. JOHN C. CALHOUN, SECRETARY AT WAR. SIR, Allow me to inscribe to you the following Journal, as an illustration of my several reports, on the mineralogy of the regions visited by the recent expedition, under Gov. Cass. I beg you will consider it, not only as a proof of my anxiety to be serviceable in the station occupied, but also, as a tribute of individual regard, for those exertions which have been made, during your administration of the War Department, to develope the physical character and resources of all parts of our country, to the patronage it has extended to the cause of science,-to the protection it has afforded to a very extensive line of frontier settlements, by stretching our cordon of military posts, through the territories of the most remote and hostile tribes of savages,—and particularly, to the notice it has bestowed upon one of the humblest cultivators of natural science. HENRY B. SCHOOLCRAFT. |