Memoir On the Recent Surveys Observations And Internal Improvements in the Un
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Bixby's map of the region about Lake Iroquois, &c. Served me for the northern part, including the Islands of Lakes Michigan and Huron. The eastern shore of Lake Michigan, north of Grand river, is drawn from a manuscript map found in the general land-office at Washington. It includes the recent purchase from the Indians, together with the present boundary line, &c. Great changes will be perceived in the country bordering on the north line of Indiana. By consult- ing the recent surveys in Michiga...n, in connection with the newly ascertained boundary between that territory and the state of Indiana, many improvements were suggested. Alterations in the geography of this part of the country were therefore found ne- cessary. The St. Joseph's of Lake Michigan, being traced from actual survey, assumes an appearance 88 MEMOIR. widely different from all former representations. The head of Lake Michigan, and indeed its configuration generally, presents a new aspect. It is worthy of re- mark, that the present form of Lake Michigan, so far as it is delineated from the public surveys, corres- ponds very nearly with the representation of it found in the old French maps, published in the time of Hen- nepin, Charlevoix, &c.
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