By this term is meant a wide range of hill country running from the head of the Merrimack southerly through Missouri and Arkansas.

In this enterprise several persons agreed to unite.

I went to St.Louis, and interested a brother of my friend Pettibone in the plan.

I found my old fellow-voyager, Brigham, on the American bottom in Illinois, where he had cultivated some large fields of corn, and where he had contracted fever and ague.

He agreed, however, to go, and reached the point of rendezvous, at Potosi; but he had been so enfeebled as to be obliged to return from that point.