Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . «^ THE INDIAN COUNTRY. 193 This height of laud begins immediately west of the basin and river of the Rainy-Lake. It subtends the utmost sources of the Mississippi, and reaches to the summit,and continues south, of Ottertail Lake, where it divides the utmost tributaries of theRed River of the North from those of the Corbeau, or Crow-wing river, and theriver St
Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . «^ THE INDIAN COUNTRY. 193 This height of laud begins immediately west of the basin and river of the Rainy-Lake. It subtends the utmost sources of the Mississippi, and reaches to the summit,and continues south, of Ottertail Lake, where it divides the utmost tributaries of theRed River of the North from those of the Corbeau, or Crow-wing river, and theriver St. Louis of Lake Superior. This elevated range serves to condense the vaporsof the surrounding waters. The drift serves as an admirable filter for this moisture,which is finally arrested by vast beds of clay, resulting from the comminuted clay-slates and schists. To these causes of watery accumulation, are added the usual rainsand snows. The efiect has been, that the amount of these condensed and atmosphericsources of moisture, sinking into the sandy beds till they are arrested by the argilla-ceous sub-soil, pours out, in crystal streams and springs, on all sides. It acts, there-fore, as the primary water-shed, not only for the Mi
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