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November 10, 1820

Morse's party examined the celebrated Saline on the Illinois river and the apparatus just erected for making salt.

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Regulations of the Schools were adopted.

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On the expedition's return down the lake, the party was becalmed near the Islands in Lake Erie; Schoolcraft took a boat, accompanied by Maj. Delafield.

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Nation & worldNovember 10, 1820

Morse's party examined the celebrated Saline on the Illinois river and the apparatus just erected for making salt.

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On the 10th November 1820, we examined the celebrated Saline, on Illinois river, and the apparatus just erected for making salt. This place had evidently been before occupied by Indians, or others, for the like purpose.

Morse, Jedidiah. A Report to the Secretary of War of the United States, on Indian Affairs, Comprising a Narrative of a Tour Performed in the Summer of 1820, under a Commission from the President of the United States, for the Purpose of Ascertaining, for the Use of the Government, the Actual State of the Indian Tribes in Our Country. New-Haven: S. Converse, 1822. Library of Congress copy via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/reporttosecretar00mors_0.PDF p. 322 / book p. 220

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November 10, 1820

Morse's party examined the celebrated Saline on the Illinois river and the apparatus just erected for making salt.

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Nation & worldNovember 10, 1820

Morse's party examined the celebrated Saline on the Illinois river and the apparatus just erected for making salt.

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On the 10th November 1820, we examined the celebrated Saline, on Illinois river, and the apparatus just erected for making salt. This place had evidently been before occupied by Indians, or others, for the like purpose.