Mississippi River -- Description and travel
A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement
A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and...
2. Volume XIIIThe present volume of our series is devoted to a reprint of Thomas Nuttall’s _Journal of Travels into the Arkansa Territory, during the year 1819, with Occasional Observations o...
3. CHAPTER IDeparture from Philadelphia--Geological remarks--Route through Harrisburgh and Carlisle to Cammel’s-town--Loudon, and the adjacent mountain scenery--The North Mountain--Cove Mou...
4. CHAPTER IIDeparture from Pittsburgh--Autumnal Scenery--Georgetown--The unfortunate emigrant--Steubenville--Picturesque Scenery--Wheeling--Little Grave creek, and the Great Mound--Other Ab...
5. volume iii, note 15.--ED.[23] Little Grave Creek flows into the Ohio from the West Virginia side, a hundred miles below Pittsburg. The village of Elizabethtown now lies at its mouth, upon the left bank....
6. volume iv of our series, note 76.--ED.[27] Letart Falls are at the northward turn of the river in the so-called “Pomeroy Bend” between Meigs County, Ohio, and Mason County, Kentucky. The rapids are of slight consequ...
7. CHAPTER IIIDeparture from Shippingsport--Velocity of the current--Troy--Owensville--Indigence of the hunting emigrants--Mounds--Evansville--The Diamond island--Shawneetown--Grandeur of the...
8. volume i, note 107.-ED.9. volume i of our series, note 108.--ED.10. volume iv, note 180.--ED.Embark amidst the ice of the Mississippi--Run aground on Wolf’s island in attempting to land--relieved from this situation--but find ourselves again involved in it, and are impo...
11. volume iii, note 132.--ED.[89] Le Page Du Pratz went to Louisiana in 1718 with a colony of eight hundred men sent out by John Law’s West India Company. He was a planter there for sixteen years, and trave...
12. CHAPTER VIIIPass several inconsiderable rivulets, and obtain sight of the Tomahawk mountain and the Gascon hills--Mulberry creek--that of Vache Grasse--Lee’s creek--prairies--Sugarloaf moun...
13. CHAPTER IXJourney to Red river--Prairies and mountains of the Pottoe--Pass the dividing ridge--Kiamesha river--Arrival on the banks of Red river--The murder of a Cherokee; attempts to obt...
14. CHAPTER XContinue my voyage up the Arkansa--Geological remarks--Pass several lesser rivulets, and the outlet of the Canadian and the Illinois--Salt springs--Obstructions in the navigatio...
15. CHAPTER XIII24th.] Last evening, as well as this morning, we were waited upon by two of the Osage chiefs from the village, one of whom was Tá-lai, their hereditary ruler. Some of the inferi...
16. CHAPTER XVIOn the evening of the 18th of December, I again arrived at the Cadron,[212] where four families now resided. A considerable concourse of travellers and some emigrants begin to m...
17. volume iv, note 211--ED.[231] Some of this rock is an impure argillaceous limestone; but the principal part consists of an indurated and parti-coloured clay, subject to disintegration, in which state i...