Here it was determined to send the Canadians with our canoe, round by water to St.Louis, while we hired a sort of stage-wagon to cross the prairies.

I visited the noted locality of fluor spar in Pope County, Illinois, and crossing the mountainous tract called the Knobs, rejoined the party at the Saline.

Here I found my old friend Enmenger, of Kemp and Keen memory, to be the innkeeper.

On reaching St.Louis, General Cass rode over the country to see the Missouri, while I, in a sulky, revisited the mines in Washington, and brought back a supply of its rich minerals.

We proceeded in our canoe up the River Illinois to the rapids, at what is called Fort Rock, or Starved Rock, and from thence, finding the water low, rode on horseback to Chicago, horses having been sent, for this purpose, from Chicago to meet us.