1832.

HISTORY OF BLACK HAWK WAR.

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hundred and forty-four at Chicago. If to this aggregate we were to add the numbers arriving at Buffalo from the west, and the numbers leaving there in sailing vessels, the multitudes going between other places on those lakes, and some fifty thousand who were passengers in the vessels on Lake Ontario, we would have a grand total of at least two hundred and fifty thousand passengers on the lakes during the last year, whose lives were subjected to all the risks attending the navigation of those waters, exclusive of the officers and crews of all the vessels engaged in that navigation. From 1840 to 1845, upwards of four hundred lives, aud property worth more than a million of dollars have been lost on the lakes.

Since that period, the trade upon the lakes has increased so much, and has become so very extensive, that it has been difficult to keep correct accounts; but from the report of the loss of human life as well as property, it seems that this has increased in an even greater ratio.

In 1804, General Harrison purchased from the Sacs aud Foxes, at 1832.] St. Louis, an immense extent of country, bounded as follows, viz:

Beginning at a point on the Missouri river, opposite the mouth of the Gasconade river; thence in a direct course so as to strike the river Jeffreon,* at the distance of thirty miles from its mouth, and down the said Jeffreon to the Mississippi; thence up the Mississippi, to the mouth of the Ouisconsin river, and up the same to a point, which shall be thirty-six miles in a direct line from the mouth of the said river; thence by a direct line, to the point where the Fox river, (a branch of the Illinois,) leaves the small lake called Sakaegan; thence down the Fox river to the Illinois river, aud down the same to the Mississippi.

And in consideration of the friendship and protection of the United States, as likewise goods, to the value of two thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars, then delivered, and a further annuity of one thousand dollars, to be paid to them annually, in goods, deliverable at St. Louis, or some convenient point on the Mississippi river, the said tribes ceded and relinquished forever to the United States, all the lands included within the above described boundary.

Of the yearly annuity, which, if required by the Indians, might be paid in compensation of useful artificers, to reside with or near

    Believed to be the Des Moines.