Part 10 (1/2)

II. Sketch of Enoch Long, by Harvey Reid, 1884. 112 pp.

III. The Edwards Papers, edited by E. B. Washburne, 1884. 632 pp.

IV. Early Chicago and Illinois, 1889. 400 pp. Of great value.

CHILDS, Col. EBENEZER. _Recollections of Wisconsin since 1820. In Wis.

Hist. Coll._, IV., 1859, 153-95.

The writer describes Chicago as it was in 1821, at which time he visited it.

_Christian Spectator_, V., 1823, 20-26. _Remarks on the States of Illinois and Missouri_, by Edward Hollister.

The author had recently completed a missionary tour in these states, and his remarks give an insight into the social conditions of the time.

COBBETT, WILLIAM. _A Years Residence, in the United States of America, 3d ed. London: William Cobbett_, 1828. 370 pp.

Cobbett was in the United States in 1817-18. He declared that Birkbeck and Fearon had deceived the people of England by portraying America as better than it was. His book is unfair.

COFFIN, LEVI. _Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed President of the Underground Railroad.... 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 ... Ill.u.s.trated 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.

c.u.mING, 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. Mana.s.seh 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_ [Colonel Arent Schuyler de Peyster, B. A.], 1774-1813. _New York: A. E. Chasmar & Co._, 1888. 80 pp., and an appendix of cci. pp.