and also to navigate its entire
length from source to sea. Accordingly he traced with infinite
hardship the narrowing stream above Itasca until its true source
was finally reached in what is now known as LAKE GLAZIER. Then,
turning about, he floated down the constantly growing stream until
its mighty volume was emptied into the Gulf of Mexico. Of this
great trip, replete with adventure and abounding in incident, he
has given a most graphic and interesting account under the title of
'Down the Great River.'"

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_The Wheeling Intelligencer._

"Captain Glazier's name is familiar to the reading public of
America through his earlier works, 'Soldiers of the Saddle,'
'Capture, Prison-Pen and Escape,' 'Battles for the Union,' 'Heroes
of Three Wars,' 'Peculiarities of American Cities,' and 'Ocean to
Ocean on Horseback.' His latest book, 'Down the Great River,' is
his most important essay in the field of literature, and is in
several respects unique. It is a very interesting account of a
remarkable canoe voyage from the head waters of the Mississippi to
the Gulf; but its importance comes from the fact that, until this
voyage was made, the source of the Mississippi was universally
placed in Lake Itasca, whereas Glazier and his party demonstrated
that a higher basin, now put down in all the new maps and
geographies as LAKE GLAZIER, is really the primary reservoir of the
Mississippi. It seems almost incredible, but is nevertheless true,
that for over forty years previous to 1881, when Captain Glazier
made his discovery, it was accepted as settled that Lake Itasca was
the remotest body of water from the mouth of the Mississippi. The
falsity of this theory, however, has been established and an
important discovery given to the geographical world. No discovery
rivaling this in interest and importance has been made on the
American continent for half a century."

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_Philadelphia Public Ledger._

"By the discoveries of Captain Willard Glazier, made in 1881, Lake
Itasca is dislodged from its former eminence as the source of the
Mississippi, the real head-waters of that mighty stream being
traced to LAKE GLAZIER, a distance of 3,184 miles from the Gulf