ge of southern Indian
nations. But it has now been discovered that Lake Itasca is not
_veritas caput_; and LAKE GLAZIER, discovered in July, 1881, by
Captain Willard Glazier, must be regarded by all future generations
as the true head of the Mississippi.

"The Mississippi, on its first stages, flows in a northerly
direction, the whole system of small lakes which contribute to it
being surrounded on the north and west by an amphitheatre of hills.
LAKE GLAZIER lies above and beyond Lake Itasca, and its waters have
an elevation of probably seven feet above that lake, being
connected therewith by a small, swift stream. Lake Itasca is
composed of three arms, extending in the form of a trefoil, having
a length of five miles and an average width of about one mile. The
upper, or southern end of its middle arm apparently terminates in a
swamp, which might easily have deceived any one not familiar with
the country. But Chenowagesic, Captain Glazier's Indian guide, who
had for years used the region of these lakes for his
hunting-ground, readily made his way through the reeds and rushes
at the mouth of the connecting stream. LAKE GLAZIER at its outlet
presents another barricade of reeds, through which the party made
their way in their canoes.

"LAKE GLAZIER is about two miles in length by a mile and a half in
breadth. Its shores, instead of being low and marshy, as are those
of many of the neighboring lakes, present finely wooded slopes and
surround the lake in what would have been the shape of a perfect
oval, had not a bold, rocky promontory indented its southern end,
and given to it the outline of a heart. On the point of this
promontory is a spring from which flows ice-cold water. The waters
of the lake are exceedingly clear and pure, proceeding from
springs, some of them in the bottom of the lake itself, and the
others at a greater or less distance from its shores.

"LAKE GLAZIER has three small feeders, one of them named Eagle
Creek, entering it near its outlet, and taking its rise a mile or
so farther south, in a small pond or lakelet, upon which Captain
Glazier bestowed the name of 'Alice,' after his daughter. Eagle
Creek runs nearly parallel with the western shore of the lake, a
little distance from it. Two streams, two or three miles in length,