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  TOUR

  OF

  THE AMERICAN LAKES,

  AND AMONG

  THE INDIANS

  OF THE

  NORTH-WEST TERRITORY,

  IN 1830:


  DISCLOSING THE CHARACTER AND PROSPECTS OF THE
  INDIAN RACE.


  BY C. COLTON.


  IN TWO VOLUMES.
  VOL. I.


  LONDON:
  FREDERICK WESTLEY AND A. H. DAVIS,

  MDCCCXXXIII.




  LONDON

  R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD-STREET-HILL.




CONTENTS OF VOL. I.


                                                                  Page

  ADVERTISEMENT                                                     ix

  INTRODUCTION                                                      xi


  CHAP. I.

  The Falls of Niagara                                               1


  CHAP. II.

  Niagara Whirlpool                                                 12


  CHAP. III.

  Geographical description of the Great Lakes of North
  America                                                           21


  CHAP. IV.

  The Author’s motives for undertaking the _Tour_; character
  of wild Indians                                                   28


  CHAP. V.

  Romantic expectations; impressions of nursery tales
  respecting Indians; the savage proper; embarkation
  from Buffalo; beauties of Lake Erie; arrival
  at Detroit                                                        33


  CHAP. VI.

  History of Detroit:--early trading posts; Pontiac’s
  conspiracy; Detroit saved; Pontiac’s death; description
  and beauties of the Territory of Michigan                         40


  CHAP. VII.

  Remarkable instance of capital crime                              48


  CHAP. VIII.

  Embarkation from Detroit; Captain Symmes’s theory
  of the earth; sail over Lake St. Clair; interest of
  the scene; delta of the River St. Clair; relics of
  French population; a picture of French and Indians                54


  CHAP. IX.

  River St. Clair; visit to Fort Gratiot; memoranda of
  Lake Huron:--wild and picturesque scenery of its
  northern regions; meeting with a canoe, manned by
  eight Indians with the paddle; their dexterity and
  the celerity of their movement; an Indian encampment;
  their lodges; the Indian paddle quicker than
  steam; the Indian’s love of money and whiskey;
  an Indian salute; and several interesting incidents
  of the passage among the islands of the north
  margin of Huron                                                   63


  CHAP. X.

  Arrival at the _Saut de St. Marie_; origin of this name;
  the Falls; an interesting young lady, whose mother
  was an Indian and her father a Scotchman; peculiar
  and moral power of Indian languages                               80


  CHAP. XI.

  Voyage from the Saut de St. Marie to Green Bay;
  the thirty-two thousand islands; the scenery they
  create; description of Michillimackinack; the sugar-loaf
  and arched rock; arrival at Green Bay in the
  North-West Territory                                              88


  CHAP. XII.

  Political relations of the American Indian tribes