oad.... Cincinnati: Western Tract Society_ [c. 1876]. _2d
ed. with appendix. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co._, 1880. 732 pp.
Pages 89-99 describe the author's visit to a Quaker settlement in Sangamon
county, Ill., in 1823. Lost on the prairies.
COLLOT, VICTOR. _A Journey in North America, containing a Survey of the
Countries watered by the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and other affluing
Rivers ... Illustrated by 36 Maps, Plans, Views, and divers Cuts. Paris:
Arthus Bertrand_, 1826. 2 vols. and atlas in one. iv. + 310; v. + 272 pp.
The author traveled through Illinois in 1796. His observations were acute
and are more helpful than would be expected from a soldier of fortune. The
New Orleans _Picayune_ of March 18, 1901, has a valuable article on the
journey of Collot and its purpose. See his _Map of the Country of the
Illinois_, in pocket.
_Columbian Centinel. Boston, June-December_, 1790; 1791-1801; 1802-1829.
The issue for June 16, 1790, has a note on the current experiments with
steamboats. In Library of Wisconsin State Historical Society.
CROGHAN, GEORGE. _Journal_, 1765. In Thwaites, _Early western Travels, I.,
126-73. Cleveland, Ohio: Arthur H. Clark Company_, 1904.
The Journal is of a trip to the West, and characterizes the early French
settlers.
CUMING, FORTESCUE. _Sketches of a Tour to the western Country,...
commenced at Philadelphia in the Winter of 1807 and concluded in 1809.
Pittsburg: Cramer, Spear & Eichbaum_, 1810. 12mo. 504 pp.
Describes Shawneetown and gives some information in regard to routes. Very
slight, however, in respect to Illinois. Criticism: _The Inter Ocean,
August 3, 1904._
CUTLER, JULIA PERKINS. _Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler. Prepared from
his Journals and Correspondence. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co._, 1890.
353 pp.
Cutler early settled in Ohio. This work gives good examples of the
difficulties of travel, between 1795 and 1809, on some of the Alleghany
routes frequented by emigrants to Illinois. The driving of western cattle
to market is also described.
CUTLER, WILLIAM PARKER, and CUTLER, JULIA PERKINS. _Life, Journals and
Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler_, LL. D. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke
& Co., 1888. 2 vols. 9 + 524; 495 PP.
Considerable information concerning early eastern opposition to western
settlement is given. Dr. Cutler kept a diary from 1765 to 1823, of which
nine years are missing.
DE PEYSTER, J. WATTS, LL. D. _Miscellanies, by an Officer
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