[30] Id.
[31] Id., xxiv, fols. 6-8.
[32] Id., xxv, fol. 50.
[33] Volney’s A View of the Soil and Climate of the United States of America (Brown’s translation) 1808, pp. 339-341.
[34] These are the Memoir and the Letter to Mason previously described.
[35] No explanation of “Cot plains” was offered to Mr. Draper by his Illinois correspondents. If the present writer be allowed a pure guess it would be that “Cot” was the American spelling of the French Quatre, “four;” “Cot plains” would then be a “Four Mile Prairie” east or northeast of Skillet Creek. The Clay County route cut off a corner of Romaine Prairie just here—which may have been known as “Four Mile Prairie” in earliest days. It is not known that such was the case.
[36] See Appendix B.
[37] Draper MSS., xxv J, fol. 112. Clark’s men marched two leagues before reaching “Sugar Camp.” Mr. English’s map (Conquest of the Northwest, vol. i, p. 313) and Bowman’s Journal are therefore utterly at variance.
[38] Draper MSS., xxv J, fol. 91.
[39] The British Fort Sackville.