 | John C. Van Tramp - 1866 - 710 páginas
...show what he saw there. "On the 19th of August, 1765, we reached the mouth of the Ontonagon river, one of the largest on the south side of the lake. At the mouth was an Indian village ; and 3 leagues above, a fall, at the foot of which sturgeon, at this season, were obtained so abundant,... | |
 | 1874 - 352 páginas
...Lake Superior. He says : " On the 19th of August, 1765, we reached the mouth of the Ontonagon River, one of the largest on the south side of the Lake....abundant that a month's subsistence for a regiment could be taken in a few hours. But I found this river chiefly remarkable for the abundance of virgin copper... | |
 | 1874 - 254 páginas
...Lake Superior. He says : " On the 19th of August, 1765, we reached the mouth of the Ontonagon River, one of the largest on the south side of the Lake....above, a fall, at the foot of which, sturgeon, at this senxon, were obtained so abundant that a month's subsistence for a regiment could be taken in a few... | |
 | Alfred P. Swineford - 1876 - 328 páginas
...advance of Carver. He says: " On the 19th of August, 1765, we reached the mouth of the Ontonagon river, one of the largest on the south side of the lake....this river chiefly remarkable for the abundance of copper which is on its banks and its neighborhood, and of which the reputation is at present more generally... | |
 | 1882 - 234 páginas
...advance of Carver. He says : "On the 19th of August, 1765, we reached the mouth of the Ontonagon river, one of the largest on the south side of the lake....at the foot of which sturgeon at this season were so abundant that a month's subsistence for a regiment could have been taken in a few hours. But I found... | |
 | 1921 - 386 páginas
...with necessaries on credit. On the nineteenth of August we reached the mouth of the river Ontonagan, one of the largest on the south side of the lake. At the mouth was an Indian village; and at three leagues above, a fall, at the foot of which sturgeon were at this season so abundant that... | |
 | Alvah Littlefield Sawyer - 1911 - 670 páginas
...of his travels he wrote: "On the 19th of August, 1765, we reached the mouth of the Ontonagon river, one of the largest on the south side of the lake....of which sturgeon, at this season, were obtained so abundantly that a month's subsistence for a regiment could be obtained in a few hours. But I found... | |
 | George Newman Fuller, Lewis Beeson - 1921 - 610 páginas
...reference to Ontonagon : "On the 19th of August [1765] we reached the mouth of the river Ontonagan, one of the largest on the south side of the lake. At the mouth was an Indian village; and at three leagues above a fall, at the foot of which sturgeon were at this season so abundant that a... | |
 | Alexander Henry - 1921 - 388 páginas
...with necessaries on credit. On the nineteenth of August we reached the mouth of the river Ontonagan, one of the largest on the south side of the lake. At the mouth was an Indian village; and at three leagues above, a fall, at the foot of which sturgecn were at this season so abundant that... | |
 | William Ashworth - 1987 - 292 páginas
...feet long," wrote the effusive Pierre Radisson of Lake Superior's Chequamegon Bay in 1658; "a months subsistence for a regiment, could have been taken in a few hours time," declared an awed Alexander Henry at the Indian fishery near Fourteen Mile Point, some eighty... | |
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On the 19th of August [1765] we reached the mouth of the river Ontonagan, one of the largest on the south side of the lake. At the mouth was an Indian village; and at three leagues above a fall, at the foot of which sturgeon were at this season so abundant... 
