Here Then Was A Raft Of Timber Worth At Least $4000. They Are Navigated By About A Dozen Men, With Large Paddles Attached At Either End Of The Raft, Which Serve To Propel And Steer.

Often, in addition to the logs, the rafts are laden with valuable freights of sawed lumber.

Screens are built as a protection against wind, and a caboose stands somewhere in the centre, or according to western parlance it might be called a cabin. Sometimes the raft will be running in a fine current; then only a couple of hands are on the watch and at the helm. The rest are seen either loitering about observing the country, or reclining, snugly wrapped up in their blankets. Some of these rafts must cover as much as two acres. Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane was not a much greater phenomenon.

LETTER IX.

SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR.

Description of the country around Lake Superior Minerals Locality of a commercial city New land districts Buchanan Ojibeway Explorations to the sources of the Mississippi Henry R. Schoolcraft M. Nicollet's report Resources of the country above Crow Wing.

CROW WING, October 7, 1856.

THERE is one very important section of this territory that I have not yet alluded to. I mean that part which borders on Lake Superior. This calls to mind that there is such a place as Superior City. But that is in Wisconsin, not in Minnesota. From that city (so called, yet city in earnest it is like to be) to the nearest point in this territory the distance by water is twelve miles.

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