OUTLINES OF WESTERN LIFE AND SCENERY; SKETCHES SETTLEMENTS OF THE FRENCH, ETC., ETC. Edmund Elogy 1815-1891 "If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow the ་ "I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and ery, "Ti "Chacun à son stile; le mien, comme vous voyez, n'est pas laconique IN TWO VOLUME S.. VOL. II. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NO. 82 CLIFF STREET. 1838. [Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by HARPER & BROTHERS, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York. XXIII. View of St. Charles and the Missouri.-The Bluffs.-" A ste round Tower."-Its Origin.-The Windmill.-A sunset Stro -Rural Sights and Sounds.-The River and Forest.-T Duellist's Grave.-The Hour and Scene.-Requiescat.-R flections.--Duelling.-A sad Event.-Young B-—.—His R quest.-His Monument.-" Blood Island."- Its Scenes a Annals. A Visit to "Les Mamelles."-The Forest-path.Obscurity.-Outlines of the Bluffs.-Derivation of Name.-P sition.-Resemblance.-The Missouri Bluffs.-View from t Mamelles.-The Missouri Bottom.-The Mamelle Prairie. The distant Cliffs and Confluences.-Extent of Plain.-A luvial Origin.-Lakes.-Bed of the Rivers.-An ancient posite XXIV. Page 9 St. Charles.-Its Origin.-Peculiarities.-Early Name.-Span Rule.-Heterogeneous Population.-Germans. The Wiza Spell.-American Enterprise.—Site of the Village.—Prospec -The Baltimore Settlement.-Catholic Religion and Insti tions.-"St. Charles College."-The Race of Hunters.Specimen.-The Buffalo.—Indian Atrocities.-The "Ranger -Daniel Boone.-"Too Crowded !"-The "Regulators." Boone's Lick.-His Decease.-His Memory.-The Missc Indians.-The Stoccade Fort.-Adventure of a Naturalist Route from St. Charles.-A Prairie without a Path.-Enorm Vegetation.-The Cliffs.-The Column of Smoke.-Perplex -A delightful Scene.-A rare Flower.-The Prairie Flor Spring.In Summer.-In Autumn. The Traveller loi 18 |