Early Western Travels 1748-1846 Volume XVII Early Western Travels 1748-1846 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 Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D. Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents," "Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," "Hennepin's New Discovery," etc. Volume XVII Part IV of James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition 1819-1820 [Illustration] Cleveland, Ohio The Arthur H. Clark Company 1905 COPYRIGHT 1905, BY THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Lakeside Press R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY CHICAGO CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVII CHAPTER I [IX of Vol. III, original ed.]--Journey from Belle Point to Cape Girardeau. Cherokee Indians. Osage War. Regulator's Settlements of White River 11 CHAPTER II [X of Vol. III]--Hot Springs of the Washita. Granite of the Cove. Saline River 42 CHAPTER III [XI of Vol. III]--Red River. Exploring Expedition of 1806. Return to the Arkansa. Earthquakes 61 A General Description of the Country traversed by the exploring Expedition. _Stephen Harriman Long_ 94 Observations on the Mineralogy and Geology of a Part of the United States west of the Mississippi. _Augustus Edward Jessup_ 183 Calculations of Observations made ... on a tour from the Council Bluffs on the Missouri River, westward along the river Platte to its head waters in the Rocky Mountains,--thence southwardly to the head waters of the Arkansa and Canadian rivers, and down said rivers to Belle Point, performed in 1820. [From Philadelphia edition, 1823]. _Stephen Harriman Long_, and _William Henry Swift_ 256 Vocabularies of Indian Languages [from Philadelphia edition, 1823]. _Thomas Say_ 289 ILLUSTRATION TO VOLUME XVII