_From Messrs. Cowperthwait & Company, Philadelphia._

"We have added LAKE GLAZIER to our School Maps as the source of the Mississippi."

_From E. A. Lawrence, University Publishing Company, New York:_

"We think LAKE GLAZIER is important enough to outrank Itasca as the source of the Mississippi."

_From W. M. Bradley & Brother, Philadelphia:_

"LAKE GLAZIER appears on our large Atlas of the World, and on Mitch.e.l.l's Atlas, as the true source of the Mississippi."

_From John Lovell & Son, Educational Publishers, Montreal:_

"The collection of testimonials from leading citizens of Minnesota, and others, tells convincingly in Captain Glazier's favor."

_From MacMillan & Company, London and New York:_

"Pray accept our very cordial thanks for your courtesy in sending us the map of the true source of the Mississippi. We are forwarding it on to our London house, who will gladly avail themselves of the information it conveys."

_From g.a.y.l.o.r.d Watson, Map and Chart Publisher, New York:_

"I shall show LAKE GLAZIER as the source of the Mississippi on my maps."

_From P. O'Shea, Catholic Publisher, New York:_

"I have come to the conclusion that LAKE GLAZIER is the true source of the Mississippi, and intend to give it as the source in the new editions of my geographies."

_From Geo. H. Adams & Son, Map Publishers, New York:_

"We recognize LAKE GLAZIER as the True Source of the Mississippi River, and believe that Captain Glazier's claim to its discovery is now admitted by all the leading Map Publishers of the country."

_From the Map and School Supply Company, Toronto:_

"We consider LAKE GLAZIER the source of the Mississippi River, and are having it appear on all our latest maps as such."

_From Captain A. N. Husted, Professor of Mathematics, State Normal School, Albany, New York:_

"Captain Willard Glazier:

"_My Dear Sir:_--I have been much interested in your trip to the beginning of the Father of Waters, and feel that you have contributed a valuable item to the great volume of geographical knowledge."

_From Colonel George Soule, President of Soule, College, New Orleans:_

"I recognize the correctness of Captain Glazier's claim, and shall teach that the source of the Mississippi is LAKE GLAZIER."

_From Rev. L. Abernethy, A. M., D. D., President of Rutherford College, North Carolina:_

"I am satisfied that LAKE GLAZIER is the true source of the Mississippi and that Captain Glazier is ent.i.tled to the honor of its discovery."

_From J. L. Smith, Map Publisher, Philadelphia:_

"Having given considerable attention to the merits of the claim presented by Captain Willard Glazier to have definitely located the source of the Mississippi, I am of the opinion that the lake to the south of Itasca should be recognized as the primal reservoir or true fountain-head of that river, and that Captain Glazier is ent.i.tled to the credit of having been the first to discover this fact and call public attention to it."

_From G. H. Laughlin, A. M., Ph. D., President of Hiram College, Ohio:_

"Captain Glazier has rendered an invaluable service to the science of geography. I am glad that the school geographies are being corrected so as to indicate LAKE GLAZIER as the source of the Father of Waters."

_From the firm of W. & A. K. Johnston, of Edinburgh, Scotland, Geographers and Engravers to the Queen:_

"You have the satisfaction of having done a great work in settling the vexed question of the source of your mighty river. For this, all interested in geography are indebted to you."

_From Charles Lubrecht, Map Publisher, New York:_

"I shall show LAKE GLAZIER as the source of the Mississippi River in all future editions of my Maps."

_From M. Dripps, Map Publisher, New York:_