unt, written by Mrs. Kinzie from the dictation of her
mother-in-law, who was an eye-witness of the massacre. Incorporated almost
verbatim in Mrs. Kinzie's "Wau-Bun." The edition of 1844 was the first,
not the second, as stated in the Chicago Magazine, I., 103, and repeated
by Dr. Thwaites.

LAUSSAT, Count. _The military Title of Louisiana and the Territory of
Illinois, dated New Orleans, Jan. 12, 1804, and signed by Count Laussat,
Napoleon's Ambassador. It is also the order to Gen. De Lassus to deliver
the Territory over to Capt. Amos Stoddard, of the U. S. Artillery._

Original manuscript letter, in French, in the Illinois State Historical
Library, Springfield, Ill.

LOOMIS, CHESTER A. _The Notes of a Journey to the Great West in 1825._ 28
unnumbered pages, six chapters. Printed without place, name of publisher,
or date.

The writer entered Illinois in the present Vermilion county, went south to
the Wabash, west to Vandalia, then to Kaskaskia. His observations are
acute and readable. Describes Vermilion county salines, Illinois farm
products, pioneer homes, and the inconvenience attendant upon traveling on
horseback. Bound with other pamphlets in the Champaign (Illinois) Public
Library.

----_A Journey on Horseback through the Great West, in 1825. Visiting
Alleghany Towns, Olean, Warren, Franklin, Pittsburg, New Lisbon, Elyria,
Norfolk, Columbus, Zanesville, Vermilion, Kaskaskia, Vandalia, Sandusky,
and many other places. Bath, N. Y.; Plaindealer Press._ 27 unnumbered
pages.

The writer was from Rushville, Ontario county, N. Y. Same as the
preceding. In library of State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

_McLean County Historical Society, Transactions of the._ Vol. II.
_Bloomington, Ill.: Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co._, 1903. 695
pages.

Some facts of interest concerning the first school in the county, and the
early settlers and their manner of living, are given by those old settlers
who were chief actors.

_Mandements des Eveques de Quebec. Quebec: Imprimerie Generale A. Cote et
Cie._, 1887-88. I., (1659-1740), 588; II., (1741-1806), 566; III.,
(1806-1850), 635; IV., (1850-1870), 794 pp.

A valuable collection of manuscripts. They tell of a monopoly on sending
missionaries to Illinois, and one letter (II., 205) gives a good idea of
the worldliness of the Kaskaskians of 1767. The first two volumes alone
concern us.

MASON, EDWARD G. (_Editor_). _Early Chicago and Illinois. Chicago: Fergus
Printin