med for him 'Lake Glazier.'"

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_From American Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica:_

"The Mississippi has its source in LAKE GLAZIER, south of Lake
Itasca, Minnesota, 47 deg. 34' N. lat, 95 deg. 2' W. long. The greatest
width of this lake is a mile and a half, and it is deeper than
Itasca, with which it is connected by a shallow stream about six
feet wide."

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VI. NOTICES OF THE PRESS.

The Press, as the most important indication and expression of public
opinion, has been almost unanimous, since 1881, in sustaining Captain
Glazier's claim, more especially the Press of Minnesota; while the
majority of the leading papers of the East have pronounced strongly in
his favor. We can insert here only a few notices, taken chiefly from the
journals of the Northwest.

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_Saint Paul Dispatch._

"Captain Glazier has just published the record of his experiences
in his undertaking to establish that the true source of the
Mississippi is not that which geographers have heretofore accepted
as such, to wit: Lake Itasca. It is indisputable that Captain
Glazier did proceed to a higher point than any reached by previous
explorers, and that the body of water located by him and now known
as LAKE GLAZIER, is a direct feeder of the generally accredited
head of the Mississippi. The _Dispatch_ has always claimed for the
writer of this book the honor of being the discoverer of the true
source of our Great River. There certainly is a great deal in his
work to substantiate his claim, and to sustain the attitude taken
by the _Dispatch_.

"...Captain Glazier set out to test the correctness of the
generally accepted theories of scholars as to the place of the rise
of this Great River; he made the test and found, as we believe,
that those theories were not correct. He has given to the world the
record of that work, and has done much to perpetuate his own name
thereby."

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_Minneapolis Spectator._

"'Down the Great River,' by Captain Willard Glazier, gives an
account of the discovery of the lake now generally asserted to be
the source of the Mississippi; also a description of a cano