CHAPTER VII.
Trip through the Miami of the lakes, and the Wabash Valley--Cross the grand prairie of Illinois--Revisit the mines--Ascend the Illinois--Fever--Return through the great lakes--Notice of the "Trio"-- Letter from Professor Silliman--Prospect of an appointment under government--Loss of the "Walk-in-the-Water"-- Geology of Detroit--Murder of Dr.Madison by a Winnebago Indian.
1821.

I left New York for Chicago on the 16th June--hurried rapidly through the western part of that State--passed up Lake Erie from Buffalo, and reached Detroit just in season to embark, on the 4th of July.

General Cass was ready to proceed, with his canoe-elege in the water.

We passed, the same day, down the Detroit River, and through the head of Lake Erie into the Maumee Bay to Port Lawrence, the present site, I believe, of the city of Toledo.

This was a distance of seventy miles, a prodigious day's journey for a canoe.