presentatives of the United States. Baltimore: Joseph
Robinson_, 1816. 48 pp.

_Illinois, House Journal, 1824-25. Vandalia, Ill.: Robert Blackwell &
Co._, 1824. 305 pp.

Contains items on slavery (pp. 13, 151-2), and tells of the election of a
U. S. senator to succeed Ninian Edwards (pp. 38-9).

_Illinois Intelligencer. Edwardsville, Ill.: Hooper Warren, ed._, 1826-30.

In St. Louis Mercantile Library.

_Illinois Laws_, 1824-25. 190 pp.

Pages 50-51 give the text of an act to amend an act entitled "An act
respecting free Negroes, Mulattoes, Servants, and Slaves," approved 30th
March, 1819.

_Illinois monthly Magazine. Vandalia, Ill.: conducted by James Hall._

Notes on Illinois in Volumes I. and II. (1830-1832) and the History of St.
Louis in Volume II. are of some service. The articles are, however,
unsigned, and are of too popular a type to be wholly relied upon.

_Illinois Revised Laws of 1833. Vandalia, Ill.: Greiner & Sherman_, 1833.
677 pp. and index.

Contains the negro codes of 1819 and 1829, respectively.

IMLAY, GILBERT. _A topographical Description of the Western Territory of
North America, containing a succinct Account of its Climate, natural
History, Population, Agriculture, Manners and Customs. London: J.
Debrett_, 1792. 8vo. xv. + 247 pp. _3d ed._, 1797, enlarged. More
valuable.

The best early authority on the subject treated. Not very full in regard
to Illinois. Predicts western state-making.

KEATING, WILLIAM H. _Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St.
Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, __ &c., &c., performed
in the Year 1823 ... compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Messrs. Say,
Keating, and Colhoun. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea_, 1824. 2 vols. 8vo. I.,
xii. + 439; II., 459 pp. Same, _London: Whittaker_, 1825.

Contains an extremely interesting and important description of Chicago and
its vicinity, and in less detail, of northern Illinois.

KINZIE, Mrs. JOHN H. (Juliette A. McGill Kinzie). _Wau-Bun, the __"__Early
Day__"__ in the North-West._ New edition with an introduction and notes by
Reuben Gold Thwaites. _Chicago: The Caxton Club_, 1901. xxvii. + 451 pp.

This work, which first appeared in 1856, has the best account, not by an
eye-witness, of the massacre at Fort Dearborn in 1812. Mrs. Helm gives
this account.

----_Narrative of the Massacre at Chicago, August 15, 1812, and of some
preceding Events. Chicago: Ellis & Fergus_, 1844. 34 pp.

A valuable acco