David Baillie Warden (1778-1845) was for many years United States consul at Paris. He was much interested in antiquities and published Recherches sur les Antiquités de l'Amérique Septentrionale (Paris, 1827); also earlier A Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States of North America (Edinburgh, 1819).—Ed.
[66] Audubon (see "Ornithological Biography," vol. i. p. 156) mentions an instance of a cow that swam in to the window of a house which was seven feet above the ground, and sixty feet above low-watermark.—Maximilian.
[67] For Parkersburg, see Woods's English Prairie, in our volume x, p. 224, note 27. The other settlement should be Belpré, for which see our volume iv, p. 127, note 87.—Ed.
[68] For points of historic interest connected with the Little Hockhocking (Hocking) River, see Croghan's Journals, in our volume i, p. 131, note 99.
Shade Creek rises in Atkins County, flows southeast through Meigs County, and enters the Ohio about twenty-one miles below Blennerhassett's Island.—Ed.
[69] For Point Pleasant and Gallipolis, see respectively Croghan's Journals, in our volume i, p. 132, note 101, and F. A. Michaux's Travels, volume iii, p. 185, note 34.—Ed.
[70] Racoon Creek, ninety miles in length, drains Vinton County, Ohio, flows through Gallia County, and joins the Ohio River seven miles below Gallipolis.
For Guyandotte River, see Woods's English Prairie, in our volume x, p. 229, note 33.—Ed.
[71] Symmes Creek, which enters the Ohio five miles above Burlington, probably derived its name, like the village Symmes, from John Cleves Symmes, appointed judge in the Northwest Territory in 1787. In 1788 Judge Symmes received a federal grant of a million acres of public land, upon which was founded Cincinnati and North Bend.
Burlington, in the southwestern extremity of Ohio, was once the seat of Lawrence County.