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and the St. Peters, and back by north shore of Lake Superior.

In 1832 another expedition passed through the country under the direction of Schoolcraft and from his pen we have a volume published in 1834 being a "Narrative of an Expedition through the upper Mississippi to Ithasca Lake the actual source of that river."

The Sauk war which broke out this year 1832 perhaps did more than any thing else to turn the attention of Emigrants and others to this country by brining it into notice. It is not proposed here to enter into details concerning the Indian disturbance having but little to add to what has already been published upon the subject-

Soon after these troubles were ended the lands were surveyed by order of the government and not till then was commenced that rapid settlement of the country which has now filled it with a population [but little short] of at least a hundred thousand souls.