James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 1James, Edwin
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James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 1
James, Edwin
Indians of North America; Rocky Mountains; United States -- Discovery and exploration; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
[018] For Point Pleasant and the battle fought there,
see Thwaites and Kellogg, _Documentary History of Lord
Dunmore's War_ (Madison, Wis., 1905); Croghan's _Journals_, in
our volume i, note 101; and Bradbury's _Travels_, in our
volume v, note 156. Chief Logan was not present at this
battle. The full text of his famous speech is given in
Jefferson's "Notes on Virginia;" Ford, _Writings of Thomas
Jefferson_ (New York, 1894), iii, p. 156; Roosevelt, _Winning
of the West_ (New York, 1889), i, p. 237. It has long ranked
as one of the great masterpieces of Indian oratory; but its
genuineness was attacked by Luther Martin, of Maryland, and
others. A summary of the evidence pro and con is given in
Brantz, _Tah-Gah-Jute; or Logan and Cresap_ (Albany, 1867),
appendix No. 2. It is now generally conceded that it was
delivered by Logan substantially as we have it.--ED.
[019] For sketch of Maysville, see André Michaux's _Travels_, in
our volume iii, note 23.--ED.
[020] Washington, four miles southwest of Maysville, was
founded in 1786, and was an important town in the early days of
Kentucky. It was for some time the seat of Mason County.--ED.
[021] For the early history of Cincinnati, see Cuming's _Tour_,
in our volume iv, note 166.--ED.
[022] For sketches of Glen and Drake, see Nuttall's _Journal_,
in our volume xiii, note 35.--ED.
[023] Drake's Picture of Cincinnati, page 64. To that work,
Cranmer's [Cramer's] "Navigator," published at Pittsburgh in
1814, and Gilleland's "Ohio and Mississippi Pilot," we refer our
readers for very minute, and in general very accurate, accounts
of the country along the Ohio.--JAMES.
_Comment by Ed._ This area, known to geologists as the
"Cincinnati anticline," is co-extensive with the fertile blue
grass lands. It consists essentially of an island of Ordovician
(Lower Silurian) limestone, surrounded by the later systems. The
Ordovician system is especially characterized by mollusca of
the cephalopod class, to which _Orthoceras_ belongs, while the
Ammonites do not appear below the Devonian.
[024] Cincinnati College, the forerunner of Cincinnati
University, grew out of a school established in 1814 on the
model of the new English system of Lancaster and Bell. The
college was chartered in 1815. Possibly the reference is to the
recently-established medical college, for which see Nuttall's
_Journal_, in our volume xiii, note 35.--ED.
[025] Population by census of 1820, 9,642; of 1830, 24,831.--ED.
[026] The Cincinnati mounds are now obliterated. A good
description of them, with diagram, is given in _Smithsonian
Contributions to Knowledge_ (Washington, 1852), iii, art.
vii.--ED.
[027] Voy. a l' ouest des monts Alleghany, 1804. p. 93.--JAMES.
_Comment by Ed._ See F. A. Michaux's _Travels_, in our volume
iii, p. 175.
[028] Pers. Nar. vol. i. p. 357. Philadelphia Edition.--JAMES.
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