Decimber 22, 1.942 
 
Digest of: 
Carver, Captain Jonathan. 1796. Three years travels through 
the'interior parts of 1. America for more than 5,000 miles. 
Key and Simpson, 1796, 360 pp. 
p. 13 Left Mackinac Sept. 3, 1763 
9/19 Arr. Fondu lao (La fsy) 
p. 20 9/20 Started up Fox. 
p. 214 Lake Winnebago 'abounds with fish, and in the fall of the 
,year with geese, ducks, and teal. The latter are remarkably good- 
by feeding on wild rice--." 
p. 214 lox above Winnebago: Oit is in some places with difficulty 
that canoes can pass through-the rice stalks. The country is 
fertile, and in no part very woody. This river is the greatest 
resort of wild fowls-I met with in the whole course of my 
travels; frequently the sun would be obscured by them for some 
minutes together." 
p. 27 Portage: "here one-half way between the rivers, is a morass 
overgrown with a kind of long grass; the rest of it a plain 
with some few oak and pine trees growing thereon. I observed 
here a great number of rattlesnakes." Left Oct. 8. 
p. 29 "Whilst I stood here ( Prairie du Sac) I took a view of 
some mountains that lie about fifteen miles to the southward, 
ad abounded in lead ore. I ascended on one of the highest 
of these, and had an extensive view of the country.  or my 
miles nothing was to be seen but lesser mountains, which appeared 
at a distance like hay cooks, they being free from trees. 
Only a few groves of hickory, and stunted oaks, covered some of 
the vallies.' 
p. 30 "The Ouisconsin, from the carrying place to the part where 
it falls into the Mississippi flows with a smooth, but strong 
current; the water of it is exceedingly clear, and through it 
you may perceive a fine sandy bottom." In it are a few islands, 
the soil of which appeared to be good, though somewhat woody." 
p. 32 The Mississippi, opposity to (Prairie du Chien) appe7ars 
to be more than a mile wide, and full of islands, the soil of 
which is extraordinarily ricri, and but thinly wooded. 
p. 34 Noxi. "Arrived at Lake Pepin-this river has a range of 
mts. on each side-the land betwixt the mts., and on their 
sides, is generally covered with grass, with a few groves of 
trees interspersed, near which large droves of deer and elk 
are frequently seen feeding.' 
P- 35 The Lake--abounds with fish. Great numbers of fowl 
frequent also this lake and the rivers adjacent: such as 
storks, swans, geese,0rants, and ducks: and in the groves are 
found great plenty of turkeys and partridges. On the plains 
are the largest buffaloes of any in America.'