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Featherstonhaugh^s Geological Report. 129 the right bank, and not from the east, the intervening space being occupied by the present main channel. From the top of Trempe a Peau^ its whole history is seen at a glance : the eastern bluffs are distant at least five miles from it, and in one part recede still more; an extensive prairie, having few or no trees, extending east and west about twenty-five miles, and from five to six miles wide, north-by-east, by compass, sep¬ arating this out-lier from those bluffs to the east. It is evident that the Mississippi has once passed north of this out-lier, has covered the prairie, then a lake, and has coasted the dis¬ tant eastern bluffs. This affords another incontrovertible instance of that remarkable reduction of the fresh-water level of this continent, before alluded to, at which period the con¬ tracted channel left the then lake, and cut off the Trempe a Veau from the right bank. Ompedo Wakeen, brother to Wabeshah, a celebrated chief of a neighboring band of Naco¬ tahs, told me, on the evening of the day I visited the place, that the Indians called it Minnay Chonkahah, or Bluff in the water, and that they resorted to it at the beginning of the wild-geese season, to make offerings to Wakon, or the deity, for success in hunting. A few miles higher up, there is another prairie on the right bank, where Wabeshah's band have their lodges ; and about half way from this place to Lake Pepin, is another, on the same side of the river, still more extensive, arid bordered with cedar trees. Having a copy of Carver's Travels with me, and having always found his descriptions deserving of very great confi¬ dence, I had been anxious to discover a remarkable locality he speaks of,* and which, from the doubts expressed by other * ** One day, having landed on the shore of the Mississippij some miles below Lake Pepin, whilst my attendants were preparing ray dinner, I walked out to take a view of the adjacent country. I had not proceeded far before I came to a fine, level, open plain, on which I perceived, at a little distance, a partial elevation, that had the appearance of an intrenchment. On a nearer inspection I had greater rea¬ son to suppose that it had really been intended for this many cpturies ago. Not¬ withstanding it was now covered with grass, I could plainly discern that it had 9
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Page Title | Report of a Geological Reconnaissance made in 1835, from the seat of government, by the way of Green Bay and the Wisconsin Territory to the Coteau de Prairie…(excerpt) |
Author | Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866 |
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Source Creation Date | 1836 |
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Recommended Citation | Featherstonhaugh, George. Report of a geological reconnaissance made in 1835, from the seat of government, by the way of Green Bay and the Wisconsin Territory to the Coteau de Prairie, an elevated ridge dividing the Missouri from the St. Peter's River (excerpt: pp. 119-134). (Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1836);online facsimile at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1 |
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Page Title | 129 |
Author | Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866 |
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Full Text | Featherstonhaugh^s Geological Report. 129 the right bank, and not from the east, the intervening space being occupied by the present main channel. From the top of Trempe a Peau^ its whole history is seen at a glance : the eastern bluffs are distant at least five miles from it, and in one part recede still more; an extensive prairie, having few or no trees, extending east and west about twenty-five miles, and from five to six miles wide, north-by-east, by compass, sep¬ arating this out-lier from those bluffs to the east. It is evident that the Mississippi has once passed north of this out-lier, has covered the prairie, then a lake, and has coasted the dis¬ tant eastern bluffs. This affords another incontrovertible instance of that remarkable reduction of the fresh-water level of this continent, before alluded to, at which period the con¬ tracted channel left the then lake, and cut off the Trempe a Veau from the right bank. Ompedo Wakeen, brother to Wabeshah, a celebrated chief of a neighboring band of Naco¬ tahs, told me, on the evening of the day I visited the place, that the Indians called it Minnay Chonkahah, or Bluff in the water, and that they resorted to it at the beginning of the wild-geese season, to make offerings to Wakon, or the deity, for success in hunting. A few miles higher up, there is another prairie on the right bank, where Wabeshah's band have their lodges ; and about half way from this place to Lake Pepin, is another, on the same side of the river, still more extensive, arid bordered with cedar trees. Having a copy of Carver's Travels with me, and having always found his descriptions deserving of very great confi¬ dence, I had been anxious to discover a remarkable locality he speaks of,* and which, from the doubts expressed by other * ** One day, having landed on the shore of the Mississippij some miles below Lake Pepin, whilst my attendants were preparing ray dinner, I walked out to take a view of the adjacent country. I had not proceeded far before I came to a fine, level, open plain, on which I perceived, at a little distance, a partial elevation, that had the appearance of an intrenchment. On a nearer inspection I had greater rea¬ son to suppose that it had really been intended for this many cpturies ago. Not¬ withstanding it was now covered with grass, I could plainly discern that it had 9 |
Event Date | 1835 |
Event Years | 1835 |
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