Comment by Ed. Boone's Narrative was actually written by John Filson, from interviews with the pioneer. The stilted style is of course far from being Boone's product.
[146] George Herbert.—Flagg.
[147] Mungo Park, born in Scotland (1771), was engaged by the African Society (1795) to explore the course of the Niger, which he reached July 20, the following year. While on a subsequent tour he was drowned in that river (1805). See his Travels in the interior district of Africa (London, 1816).—Ed.
[148] July 4.—Flagg.
[149] The Prairie.—Flagg.
[150] For an account of Vandalia, see Woods's English Prairie, in our volume x, p. 326, note 75.—Ed.
[151] The first number of the Illinois Monthly Magazine was issued in October, 1830. Late in 1832 Hall removed to Cincinnati, when he soon began issuing the Western Monthly Magazine, or continuation of the former publication, whose subject matter was largely historical, dealing with the early settlement of the West. For an account of Judge James Hall see ante, p. 31, note 2.—Ed.
[152] Hall.—Flagg.
[153] Hurricane Creek rises near the line of Montgomery and Shelby counties, flows southerly through the western portion of Fayette County, and enters Kaskaskia River twelve miles below Vandalia. The banks of this creek were formerly heavily timbered, and the low bottoms were occasionally inundated. Flagg considerably exaggerated the actual condition of this region.—Ed.
[154] Carlyle, the seat of Clinton County, forty-eight miles east of St. Louis, was laid out in 1818.