FOOTNOTES:
[1] Cumberland Mountains.
[2] This shot is what came to be known later as “barking off.” The American naturalist, Audubon, in his “Ornithological Biography” speaks of Boone’s performing the feat a number of times in procuring specimens.
[3] Afterward called the Kentucky River.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.