The expedition party traveled by canal and steamboat.

The evidence

• “*By canal and steamboat, May 1820*”

  1821-schoolcraft-narrative-journal/01-new-york-to-detroit.md, PDF pp. 29–77

  Schoolcraft, Henry R. Narrative Journal of Travels through the Northwestern Regions of the United States, Extending from Detroit through the Great Chain of American Lakes, to the Sources of the Mississippi River, Performed as a Member of the Expedition under Governor Cass, in the Year 1820. Albany: E. & E. Hosford, 1821. Library of Congress copy via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/narrativejournal01scho.

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