[11]. For notes on the places mentioned in this paragraph, see A. Michaux’s Travels, volume iii of our series: Pittsburg, note 11; Wheeling, note 15; Marietta, note 16; Cuming’s Tour, volume iv of our series: Cincinnati, note 166; Croghan’s Journals, volume i of our series: Louisville, note 106; F. A. Michaux’s Travels, volume iii of our series: Frankfort, note 39.—Ed.
[12]. This village was probably on the Allegheny reservation—one of the ten reservations retained by the Seneca Indians when the Holland Company in 1797 extinguished their title. It lay along the Allegheny River, extending from the Pennsylvania line north-eastward about twenty-five miles.—Ed.
[13]. The Great Western Turnpike was the second road leading into western New-York. Unlike the Genesee Road, it was built by private companies and in several sections. The First Great Western Turnpike was built from Albany to Cherry Valley in 1802. At the time of Buttrick’s voyage it had been extended by the fourth Great Western Turnpike Company as far as Homer, a hundred and fifty miles from Albany. It was later continued past the head of Cayuga and Seneca lakes, and under the Lake Erie and Oil Spring Turnpike Company was completed to Lake Erie, terminating just north of the Pennsylvania boundary line.—Ed.
[14]. A small settlement was begun at Olean Point in 1804. For some time its projectors expected it to become an important place on the route of Western immigration; on one occasion two thousand people are said to have collected there, while waiting for navigation to open. But with the construction of the Erie Canal, the Allegheny route to the West was abandoned and Olean lay dormant, until the development of the oil interests in south-western New-York gave it new life.—Ed.
[15]. The hard times following the War of 1812–15 caused a great increase in immigration from New-England, especially Maine. The “Ohio fever” became a well-known expression for this desire to move West, and in the years 1815–16 it deprived Maine of fifteen thousand of her inhabitants. See Chamberlain, Maine: Her Place in History (Augusta, 1877).—Ed.
[16]. For the early history of Shippingsport, see Cuming’s Tour, volume iv of our series, note 171.—Ed.
[17]. A brief account of New Madrid may be found in Cuming’s Tour, vol. iv of our series, note 185.
For a description of an earthquake on the Mississippi River, see Bradbury’s Travels, vol. v of our series, pp. 204–210.—Ed.
[18]. For the early history of Natchez, consult F. A. Michaux’s Travels, vol. iii of our series, note 53.—Ed.
[19]. Lake Pontchartrain was discovered by Iberville on his exploring expedition in 1699, and named in honor of Count Pontchartrain, chancellor of France under Louis XIV.—Ed.