ow,
editor._

Volumes I.-III. (1817-18) give information of much value concerning
European conditions inducing emigration. A few of the notices concern
emigration from east to west in the United States.

_American Register; or, Summary Review of History, Politics, and
Literature. Philadelphia._

Volume II., 202, 203, 216 (1817), tells of improvements in steamboat
navigation.

_Americans as they are; described in a Tour through the Valley of the
Mississippi. London: Hurst, Chance & Co.,_ 1828. vi. + 218 pp.

Observations on Illinois are more suggestive than accurate.

ATWATER, CALEB. _Remarks made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien. Columbus,
Ohio: Isaac N. Whiting_, 1831. 296 pp.

The tour was from Circleville, Ohio, to Prairie du Chien, in 1829, and
thence to Washington. The writer's remarks give valuable material for the
history of the time.

---- _Writings. Columbus, Ohio: Caleb Atwater_, 1833. 408 pp.

The author was one of a commission to treat with the Indians at Prairie du
Chien for the cession of the lead region. In 1829 he went from St. Louis
to Prairie du Chien. He gives good descriptions of Quincy, Galena, and a
few other places. The part of the Writings describing this journey was
separately printed in 1831. The edition of 1833 is somewhat better than
the previous one.

BALESTIER, JOSEPH N. _Annals of Chicago: a Lecture delivered before the
Chicago Lyceum, Jan. 21, 1840. Republished from the original Edition of
1840, with an Introduction, written by the Author in 1876. Chicago: Fergus
Printing Co._, 1876. In _Fergus historical Series_, I., No. 1. 48 pp.

Contains a copy of Capt. Heald's letter of 1812, describing the massacre
at Fort Dearborn.

BIGGS, WILLIAM. _Narrative of William Biggs, while he was a Prisoner with
the Kickepoo Indians ... on the west Bank of the Wabash River ... Printed
for the author, June, 1826._ 22 pp.

Biggs was captured on March 28, 1788, and remained a captive for several
weeks. This very rare book gives valuable insight into the revolting
customs of the Indians.

BIRKBECK, MORRIS. _Extracts from a supplementary Letter from the Illinois:
an Address to British Emigrants, and a Reply to the Remarks of William
Cobbett, Esq. 2d ed. London: James Ridgeway_, 1819. 36 pp.

Birkbeck had issued an address to British emigrants, advertising the
virtues of his English settlement in Illinois. William Cobbett declared
that Birkbeck's account of the fertility and salubrity of Illinoi