S

• 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